But he expressed no anger over the House's decision. "They'll just have to do it all over again, I suppose. What can you say?"

"It's a lot of money," he said, adding "there's a lot of other things they've got to do."

He tends to vote Republican and doesn't plan to turn away from the party, he said, although, he added, "I don't give them much money anyway."

He's been living with relatives in New Jersey.