reischauer discreet servants. i think all of your great public servants. we thank you very much or taken the time to get what they said reflected in 1890 budget agreement. thank you i'll turn back to paula. let's get some applause. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay. first of all, before we get started on to recognize a couple people instrumental in pulling this together. he will be writing up a narrative on the event, kind of looking at what lessons we learned from the 1990 senate floor today. so steve will be with us at this project. staff director some budget commissions and the plague. also come house in grant with the bipartisan policy center. i want to recognize and thank them. we call this session, listened for the next, which is presumptuous on our very part, but we note each generation seems to be in crisis. there's a tiny moment to overcome the centrifugal forces to is harder, budget. our moment arrives with the fiscal cliff. we unlike greece