dave hoppe was my chief of staff, and now he is the chief of staff for jon kyl, anb when we would have the sessions, quite often hundreds of nominees and work through the list and go through and say to clinton's people, and congratulations people or erskine bowles or whoever it was, and look, you can do these 100 or so, but these six, we have a problem. and this one in particular if you do it, the roof is going i blow off. and for the most part, we gc the ones needed done that way and one time he did that with the one we said don't do that and he did it, and all hell broke loose and it causes bad feelings, but i do, you know, there is a reason for that. i do think that advice and consent, and that would be interesting to how senator byrd would react, but a the senate does have a role. if the senate is abusing the rule, then calmer heads should sit down to say, how can we improve this process, but the main thing i would say about is get away from the constitution and the people and the personalities involved and it does really exacerbate the process. and we do need a hearing on how to