that advocate incredibly long andadvocate, long and hard around educational issues. it is those of us who are not in the area with the understanding -- we know how important to the committee legislation as. if i was to say something -- it would be to those listening, and watching in the audience. talk to your relatives and friends, in california, to speak to the local legislators. those people have not come up through education, in their legislative and political past, did not get this. they did not have the tax extensions. the burden all across the state of california, they throw up their hands. i cannot understand how this could possibly be. i ask you to go to your relatives and friends, and to address the legislators. address the people who are there. did this the other way though -- the with the other legislators to. >> another any other comments? >> i appreciate you have done, with the hard work of overseeing the budget, with a year or so of difficulty. it makes me so angry to see our children being shortchanged this way. at the state level and the federal level