dr. relman door of -- dr. elemndorf, thank you for your testimony. if this committee were to make an agreement, a solution, what is the real date that you want us to give you the information that your worker bees can turn out a reasonable number for us? >> our allegiance of skilled analysts work very hard for this committee. >> have a had time off until now? >> i'm afraid not. we have a hard working group. as i said last time i was here, if you have a set of proposals that would make changes across a range of mandatory spending programs, that would require us some weeks to work with legislative council and a staff of this committee in refining the legislative language to accomplish the objectives you are setting out to accomplish and for us to produce a cost estimate. backing up from thanksgiving, that left us looking at the beginning of november which we are very aware is not very far away. >> thank you, what is the deficit as a share of gdp today? >> in 2011, it was about 8% of gdp. >> if this committee fails and we end up with a sequester and we d