father pat conroy comes to us from the northwest. he was born and raised in washington state and spent much of his priesthood in oregon. and next monthill mark his 28th year as a jesuit priest. father pat also served here in our capital city. he was chaplain of georgetown university for a total of 10 years. and he has a deep appreciation for public service. and before being called into the priesthood, father pat had a calling to politics, specifically the united states senate. father, something tells me you'll fit in just fine right here. i think it's important to give the house a sense of father pat's character. and this is from a letter he wrote expressing his willingness to serve as chaplain. it says as follows -- as a jesuit, i believe it a part of my calling to find god in all things. and to discover the spirit of god present in the people i encounter and whom i serve. i wish to say i am ready and willing should those to be served deem me wory of this ministry. though true of any ministry, the position would call me to a radical

i'm sure all of you being readers are familiar with pat conroy, and he has the biggest heart in the world and he is a guy who when he's not writing he's running around trying to fix the world because he's such a compassionate guy and he reviewed it and said it was written with compassion and that was very important to me because i wanted it to be a book that regardless of what you're political affiliation was or if you were liberal or conservative that it would connect with your funny bone and your heart strings so thank you for that. terms of the budget, i tell you, the thing that absolutely blew our mind, and i'm sort of amazed we were so stupid that we didn't know this, we thought lowercase we just eat ramen noodles and water we can pull this off. we are not consuming any more but it isn't consumption that is so expensive. once you buy a home and own a couple of cars we live a pretty simple life, but homeowners insurance and car insurance and health insurance and prescription drugs and repair and vet bills, we don't even have kids, so i can't imagine the stress. in terms of trying to l