our policy director jonathan our budget analystrz wl be joining us as well and our chief counsel paul restusia for the purpose of considering the documents. the staff is avail t factual an questions but they are not here to enter into debate. that's what the members are so let me turn it over t staff. the general outlines of the budget resolution. i think from talking to the minority staff the thought was . we'd be happy to review the overall mark -- >> in the interests of time why don't we turn it over to questions? mr. van hollen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and my colleagues, this is our opportunity to ask specific questions related to the budget. and i'm going to start off, mr. chairman, with some. and i think everyone should understand that we received a copy of this budget just 24 hours, 24 hoursago. and i know that that procedure was similar to the procedure before. i hope going forward we can me whether you're republican or democrat that when you're talking about the budget of the united states of america everyone should have than 24 hours before they're convened at a session not only