i say the former chairman of the committee, john spratt. we welcome all of you and look forward to the input that you will be providing later date. -- later today. i will be very brief in my comments. i think we all recognize that we have to get our fiscal house in order. that is going to require some important measures. what are some important bipartisan compromise. to the extent that we can expect -- reform the budget process to help move that effort for, i think we should explore every possibility. and i look forward to hearing more about the ideas that have been an advanced by the commission. as you mentioned, the chairman and night, paul ryan, have introduced a piece of legislation, the legislative line-item veto, of bill patterns after something you have introduced in the past and has also been introduced on a bipartisan basis. i hope that we can get that measure through. one of the things we think it will do is make members of congress think twice before they ask for certain spending provision in the appropriations bill. because what