and said he also believed that he's got into get into negotiations with chairman camp, with senator bacchus, in order to broaden the base and simplify the code, and hopefully bring down rates next year. he said he's got flexibility on raising more money by cutting the entitlements. the speaker, i think this is a speaker who really gets it. he's put $800 billion worth of tax cuts on the table, but if you look at the offer he made last week, that offer doesn't mention a thing about, you know, block granting medicaid. it doesn't have a word about premium supports. it doesn't have anything in there about the deep cuts in the income-support programs. so i think that vpses th advances the ball. you look at the people on the periphery, what they're saying. you have dick durbin, who is very close to the president, saying, he can live with means testing medicare. he said he doesn't like it, but he can live with it. that's high on the list of things that leader macomedy has said he's got to have to have a deal. and even nancy pelosi has said, look, this is not about rates. it's about revenue. it's ab