also with us is congressman bill cassdi, republican of louisiana, and a member of the education and labor committee. thanks to you for being here as well. let me introduce our two reporters. steven is a staff writer, and carey covers health care. >> thank you for joining us. i want you to think about health care and in that sort of real world, not an ideal world but a real world given a democratic congress, a democratic president. what kind of bill could you support given the construct that you're in politically in the democratic congress. is there any kind of bill that you could support? that ungs your colleagues would agree? >> i certainly haven't seen it yet and i don't know that i've thought it through from that context. clearly, there's some common ground. and when we've had -- westbound several hearings on our subcommittee and there are areas of broad agreement. but the distances and exist and the moving parts, the things about the government one plan, mandates, those are going to be very difficult to overcome from my perspective. it doesn't mean that we don't work. and in fact earl