mr. matheson: that's correct. mr. rogers: we were elected to make choices and on this bill we made our choices and think we've done a fairly decent job of spreading it across the board. but to have an across the board cut would mean putting our decisionmaking on automatic pilot, refusing to make decisions, and that's what we were elected to do so i oppose the gentleman's amendment. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. mr. rogers: reserve. mr. matheson: i don't want to prolong this debate. i just want to point out, absent concerns of a point of order, i would have prescriptively said the specific to do with nonessential travel of federal employees, due to concerns about a point of order we structured this amendment where it says it's a cut of $600 million. however, the intent and hopefully the report language when folks in these agencies look at the debate that's taking place here on the house floor say it's nonessential travel and with that i reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves his