our policy director jonathan berks, our budget analyst jim herz, joining us a as well and chief counsel for the purpose of sdplarning the documents considered today. the staff is available to provide factual answers to confess members may have but are not here to enter into debate. that's what the members are here for. so let me turn it over to staff. >> we can provide, go through the general outlines of the budget resolution. i think from talking to the minority staff, the thought was plab just to go to questions. we would be happy to review the overall mark. >> in interests of time -- turn it over to questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and as, my colleagues, this is our opportunity to ask specific questions relates to the budget, and i'm going to start off, mr. chairman, with some and i think everyone should understand that we received a copy of this budget. 24 hours. 24 hours ago. and i know that that procedure was similar to the procedure before. i hope going forward we can change that procedure. i think every member of this committee would recognize that whether you're republica