to you was mentioning earlier, we have a tradition in the senate, every thursday, a host a lunchked to for his fellow senators. a month ago, it was my turn. i will acknowledge, and most senators, if they are telling would agree, that the senators kind of mark their senator when it's the from alaska, either myself or cows ky.m salmon, halibut, reindeer sausage, i had just a ago. everybody really enjoys it but you get to brag about your state. in of the things that i did that lunch just a month ago, i not only talked about, which is, f course, a little bit difficult, it's difficult for my fellow texas senators to hear alaskan in half texas would be the third largest state in the country. size of /2 times the texas but we're also a continental-wide state, so what mean by that? if you actually super imposed 48 states, e lower you would have cities, for southeast alaska hitting in the area of northern florida, say, st. petersburg. then barro, in the northern part f the state, would actually be north, the northern part of north dakota, almost into canada. alaska would be into texas and the r