sounds a little technical but for 17 years congress can kicked this one bill down the road and plansy pelosi and speaker boehner got together, bipartisan, and got us a fix. we're in the middle of these throws about trade, trade promotion authority for the president, i think we're going to get that done. that again will be something we had to cross party lines. i think there's a lot more than we can get done. i got my first bill passed on ex end itting awards, science awards beyond nasa to many other agencies, stimulating just people to solve science problems that we don't have answers for yet. with the republican co-sponsor bob johnson we asked every member in the science committee to co-sponsor the bill to try to do this together. there are a lot of people on both sides who want to get past this partisan divide. >> you mentioned your role as our representative it, our ambassador to lick ten steen and also switzerland. what was that experience like and when did you serve? >> we went over in august of 2009 and came back june of 2013. so we were there almost four years. we took two teenage dau