dr. ray scheppach. >> thanks.ust want to do 2 things, talk a little bit about the relationship to the recovery package to these particular numbers, and just stress a few of what i would call take aways or bottom lines. in terms of the recovery package, it was a total of $787 billion. of that, $246 billion actually came to states or through states in terms of retirement to individuals. of that total, $135 billion was relatively flexible for states. that really came out of 2 categories, the first was the eighty-seven billion dollars in medicaid. it is not that the federal money was flexible but it allowed states to take the previous match they were going to do of that 6-1/2% or so, and use that to plug holes in places. the second piece was the state stabilization, $48 billion, which went to education. because education totals 30% of the average budget, there was a lot of flexibility there as well. the remaining $110 billion was very specific in terms of categories, flexibility to essentially move that money around.