mr. elmadorf, christmas eve, when the vote was the night before, weren't we double counting $500 billion to justify the health care bill and make it look like it's going to making money for the government instead of cost money for the government, he said yes. i asked him, would he put it in writing? and he works for us, he said, i'll put it in writing, so he put it out the next morning. he said, you're double counting the money, even though the county could suggest otherwise. you may say you've paid for this, but it's not reality, even though the conventions of accounting might suggest that it is. all right, well. the roads bridge improvement discussion has -- that's a pretty substantial increase at base level, is it not? at a time the country is suffering -- >> senator, we have not paid attention to our roads and bridges, we haven't. >> i know that. >> we could fill a lot of boyfriends. >> how far official we are for nixing up our roads and bridges, because it's significant, it's billions of dollars, we're way behind. >> with regard to california, i see the numbers that are coming in, i