tom, hks very muthanks very muc.you and the senator i thi thought had a tremendous conversation the other night back an forth. we spend i think an hour and a half or two hours on that matter. i learned a lot as a result of that conversation. i appreciate very much your willingness to engage in that kind of a discussion and thank you. >> thank you. i thank you for allowing us the freedom to express our thoughts aas we go into this mark up. and i want to say to my colleagues, i don't think what we all want in terms of an outcome is all that different. but there's a tremendous difference in how we get there. i'm reminded of the stimulus package we spent and where speed is causing waste right now. tremendous amounts of waste. we need a stimulus package. we got one. but the speed denies the fact that sometimes we get it right. so i'm going to say some things this afternoon that are going to be pretty tough. but i believe in the goodwill of my colleagues that we actually all want the same thing. we want no one to ever lose