i think -- if you look at presidentialed a mingses, and it's not just obama, but most presidents modern day, all the decisions are made in the white house and then out in foggy bottom or the pentagon or wherever they implement. but they don't have a lot of authority to make decisions. and i think those are unattractive jobs and wouldn't want to take it. the other thing is you always want to work in a company where the person that you work for has your back. as they would say. if one of our people screws up, city government or here, and it was a rational thing, they try -- and just didn't work. or just said something stupid. we all say things stupid. if you're going to shoot everybody that said something stupid, there would be nobody left. and so i want to make sure people see me walking down the aisle with that person telling a joke, laughing. and having a cup of coffee. and -- because people have got to understand that if they don't try or if they don't fail, they're going to be -- how do i phrase it, that they can't fail and succeed. the truth of the matter is you want people to try s

i mingsed in my opening statement about the work we went through. we were here some nights until 9:00, 10:00 at night. i remember the excitement when we finally passed it out of here. i was out in the west coast and in oregon in a farm community. i went to a church. they had hundreds and hundreds of spanish speaking people who said they had watched every bit of this hear iing. they had seen because we streamed it and c-span carried it. and they'd watch it at night and on a big screen, the church auditorium. and one of the hundreds of people in this church said to me, do you remember when the gavel came down, the final vote. a number of people in the back of the room stood up and shouted viva leahy. yes, that meant a great deal to me. well, and the whole congregation stood up and repeated that. personally gratifying, but it would be a lot more gratifying if we actually get the bill through. republicans and democrats worked together to get it through the senate. we passed it. we passed it in the senate, but now we need to have real pressure from the a