he's the leader of the republicans in massachusetts, bradley jones. thank you. [applause] a number of representatives from massachusetts are here. someday, i would like him to be speaker of the house, but that is a ways off. says it doesn't and well. that's true. [applause] the way we balance our budget, how did we do it? we sat down, went through the entire budget and looked all the programs we had and said which are the programs we have to have and which are the ones they're just nice to have. the things that are nice to have, we cut back on or eliminated altogether. we also look to the functioning of state government. our health and human services department had 15 different agencies. we combined and consolidated those down to 3 so we didn't need as many lawyers, press secretaries and as many bureaucrats as we had with a larger number of agencies. this has to happen to the