so what -- domenici's proposal.hen you mention the word tax, they will send it to the senate finance or house ways and means. what domenici said to the bearge operators. we aren't going to tax you but impose on you an inland waterway charge. when the parallel men tarn read that, i'm going to send this to the environment and public works committee and the chairman of that committee sent it down to water resources cement. with domenici is the ranking republican, give it a boost to the law making process. things became more process because the parallel men tarn shifted it to the senate congress. one bill and that goes to the drafting issue as to how you want to address the problem. that's about drafting and referral. maybe the last one i'll mention and move on is co-sponsorship. and again teas your choice. you're the author of the legislation. if you want to reach out to your colleagues, you can do that. you can enlist help from lobbyists who support your point of view and you have different chases, if you will. you wa

a high probability would be that the finance chair would not be so sympathetic to domenici's proposalwhat did he do? any time you mention the word tax, they will send it to the finance committee or ways and means. soviet he said, no, we are not going to tax them. what we're going to do is impose on u.n. inland waterway charge. the parliamentarian read that and said come out the word "tax" is not mentioned here and i'm going to send this to the subcommittee on water resources development. pete davinci happened to be the ranking republican -- pete domenici have meant to be the ranking republican things became more complex after that because the parliamentarians also shifted it to the senate commerce committee and that again goes to the drafting issues in how you want to direct -- address a problem that is a little bit about drafting a referral. another thing i will mention and then move on as co-sponsors of. -- ." sponsorship. -- i will mention and then move on is a co-sponsor shipship. if you are in robert -- lobbyist you can go from office to office and you have different choices. you

as you mentioned, this was introduced by senator domenici and i in february 20107.or cornin and diane reintroduced this year. because i am a mayor, i am -- and i reintroduce it this year. i have been tracking outlays. the entitlement outlays run between 50% and 56% of everything the federal government spends in a given year. the august 2009 figures are 50%. there would have been higher except for the financial crisis numbers, which are 11% so far of everything we spend. interest is 5%, discretionary defense 18%. everything else, everything that senator sessions talked about, transportation, interior, education, just 16% of white is actually outlaid. so the intimate picture looms use. of course, it is medicare, medicaid, social security, veterans' benefits. it is those things they you can control that just keep going year in and year out. what we have put together is an entitlement commission. this commission would be an authority. this commission would handle social security and medicare. it would do so in the mode of the greenspan commission. we took a that model,