with that, i will yield -- yielded to our vice chair, javier basrea. >> thank you mr. cliburn. as i learned a long time ago from my friend in elected office, then it was then and now is now we have a job in front of us. we know it and we are ready to get back to work and to continue to build on the successes of over 150,000 jobs created last month, more than 1 million created in the last 10 months building on the fact that we just got word that 14% more small businesses are offering health insurance to their employees as a result of the health care bill that we passed. we are ready to go to work because we know job one for us is jobs for americans. as we look out at the landscape working with this president, he knows this very well and i think it sounds better in spanish when people ask can we do it, i would like to ask our ranking member on the budget committee to say a few words. >> thank you don't javier. i want to thank the members of the democratic caucus to elect me to be the ranking member of the budget committee in the next congress. we all know that that will be a cent