el elmendorf we thank you and your team for your work. i think what you're saying is we needed the supercommittee to work, we need a long-term plan that both deals with the short term in terms of what is happening with jobs. we know we'll never get out of debt with 13 million people out of work, but we have to focus on the long term. i want to thank you for that. just to reiterate, thank you for your work on the budget control act and in fact it may have been a little different process, but we did pass a budget last year. just for the record and i think there's been a manufactured political issue around whether or not it was done in the normal process or through something called the budget control act, but it certainly was done with budget caps and we can go further this year. but we certainly put in place both a budget framework and appropriations. within that, let me also just say for a moment that we in agriculture did our part and just because we did a lot of hard work together with cbo i want to thank you very much for burning the la