but they're going to get paidment, they know when we leave here. we heard today that the number of federal employees are applying for unemployment benefits. so it's really cruel to tell workers they'll receive back pay once the government opens and then refuse to open the government. mr. president, let's open the government. hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal servants want to work. they should be allowed to work. we have, for example, right now in our national security agencies, we have 1,000 mathematicians -- the nulls may- --the numbers may be a little bit wrong, but very close. we have 2,500 computer scientists, 940 ph.d.'s who are -- they're home. they can't work, they can't get paid. it's not fair to them or our country. let them work. and we get these little piecemeal pieces of lels from -- pieces of legislation from the house. for example, open the park service. in nevada, that's great because we have some national forests there. but 87% of the land in the state of nevada is owned by the federal government. the vast majority of that