host: our nangse to nbc and "saturday night live" from last evening. we'll continue the conversation with jonathan allen here tomorrow on "washington journal" talking politics. [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] hal rogers is, kentucky's 5th district, is our guest today, thank you for being with us today. >> thank you. >> joining us is staff writer lori montgomery, fiscal policy reporter for "the washington post," and humberto sanchez, staff writer for "roll call. "let's start with lori montgomery. >> you have had con -- been confronted with constant drama with the funding of the government. can you talk to us about the c.r. that just passed yesterday where there was a bit of drama. we were going to go with one number we thought we set last year, but no, that wasn't good enough, and now we came back to where we were in the first place. >> well, the budget control agreement passed, which was in the aftermath of the debt ceiling, the back of last year. overall spending is set for