you will remember angela hoffman and carrie phillips clark. they have shrink-wrapped a motorhome and they are traveling across the country. i get a pop in every now and then, have a glass of wine and talk about farmers for free trade. and it is a ton of fun. the fun doesn't stop here. particularly when you work hard with staff. it makes a big difference, and they still have the same passions. when we leave the senate , we still have passions. it's been a great opportunity for me. to read the history the senate finance committee is to read the history of our country. the battles over tariffs, the national bank of jackson that was mentioned earlier. income tax, social security, medicare. those battles were fought in the committee. i remember those battles that we fought. whether was the affordable care act, whether was taxes. when i came to the senate in 1998, i was 38 years old, i had twin two-year-olds. i came to the committee and it was a little bit different there. as we thought those battles, and there were many of them. i frequently had pe