hopefully a question, senator reed, because aim i am g the follow chairman bachus' recommendatioreck m mendation of opening up a dialogue through questions, but when you treat this as emergency spending and not pay for it, and if i heard you correctly, i would have to say i disagree with that. as member of the freshman class that came in 2010, i'm very concerned about the size of the national debt, and the attitude of washington that i think that historically has been on display of, well, it is an emergency, and too tough to pay for it, so we will kick et down the road and we will pay for it later. i have to say that i'm here to disagree with that sentiment, and that attitude has to change in washington and my constituents back at home when i was back this weekend again told me, we have to start paying for what we are doing out of washington. again, that is a common sense comments that i offer for everyone, and hopefully we can change that attitude and be an example of this, of that changed attitude through this conference committee. but i want to defer back to you, senator reed, if i could, and