[applause] >> jason plummer? >> a war has been going on in southern illinois for a long time, wage by the folks out of chicago. i think that a lot of the folks in this room have seen what has happened. i realize the impact that their policies are having. it is the youth center, the rehabilitation center, providing very important functions in our society, with important, well paying, quality jobs for hundreds of the people in southern illinois. i have been fighting these folks for a while now. i wish the bill would have had the foresight and i had and instead of donating money to pat quinn and rod blagoevich, i wish he would have worked against them. the prison shutting down is catastrophic. in terms of federal ideas, that is something that needs to be