but the presiding officer and i are good friends, ntas even though we have -- and even though we have different ideas on things, we both agree on the fact that the senate could do a better job, and would be doing a better job, if we were voting more on his amendments, on my amendments, on the amendments of anyone else who wants to file. sure, it thanks a little more time perhaps, sure, it requires a little bit of effort, but that way we're doing our job, and not everything we want will always pass. yeah, that way the law firm of schumer, mcconnell, johnson and jeffries wouldn't able to control us as much as it does. it wasn't intended to be that way. we're intended to make laws, not it other lawmakers, or oligarchs who stand in for others while the muscle continues to atrophy. in short, the next senate republican and democratic leader, regardless of who holds the majority, i hope including and especially the next majority leader of either political party, i certainly hope he or she, whoever holds that position, will plot out course that is different than the one we've been on for the