appreciate her leadership and her dedication to energy policy and sam fowler and david brooks and jerry leopold on my staff for their hard work on this and i, too have a list of staff that i just want to read quickly, will dempster, clayton allen renee black david gellers dan amendmentson, nick sutter and alicia johnson and carl sype. there are a couple of other people from my staff nicole touche and travis lumpkin but i want to thank the floor staff. first time i've managed a bill on the floor so gill and trish engel and rima from senator durbin's office and emma, thank you so much for helping us through a process that as my colleague said for the most part didn't take us way late into the night and got a lot of things accomplished when we could during the day. needless to say i'm not as excited about the passage of this legislation as my colleague on the other side of the aisle but, you know, we did find out some things during this process. we did find out that the majority of the senate doesn't think the climate change is a hoax, couldn't quite agree whether it's significantly caused by man