a majority counsel in the house of representatives for the republicans in the 1990's, and katherine mccullough was the former senate commerce counsel on the democratic side. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. joining us also is julianna grunwald, dale low dose he hadtor of the national journal. katherine, if i can start with you. you wrote in a recent blog in comlaw.com, that you look for two things -- a high degree of activity on telecommunications policy in the upcoming congress, and a high degree of cooperation. why did you write that? >> i think that there's going to be a high degree of cooperation on certain issues. for instance, tv spectrum allocation, when it comes to the idea of deciding on authority for incentive auctions and who's going to get what slice of the pie. there's a lot of incentive to work together on those issues, because it's going to mean extra money for the treasury, which, of course, means that that money can be used to either lower the deficit or be put to other programs. >> do you, trisha, see cooperation in the upcoming congress on telecommunications po