The Congressmen want to compare future spending to current spending with no inflation adjustment.

"If the Congressman wants to run on his record, he's going to have to defend it," he said.

But the Congressmen clearly wanted to do more than that.

"I don't honestly think that Congressmen vote differently than their constituents want them to vote," he said.

If any Congressman wanted to raise an objection, the rules insisted that he or she had to have the signed support of just one Senator.

What makes this time different than all other times, however, is that now the Congressmen want to do something about it.

The Congressman wanted a night to think it over.

Congressman wants better data on cruise ship crime.

The Congressman doesn't want to get branded, so he stays in a closet.

And no doubt some Congressmen do not want prisoners on death row to have experienced lawyers who might argue their appeals successfully.