and secondly, it was reforms rft program. it was the president himself that acknowledged publicly that the unemployment insurance program needed reforms. there were abuses of the program, it wasn't reaching the people -- all the people it was intended to reach, it had some flaws, it needed to be fixed. yet once again all those attempts not only by me but by a number of my colleagues in order to provide what have been deemed i think even on a bipartisan basis as reasonable reforms, they've been rejected, rejected not because we had a vote, debate, and it didn't achieve the requisite number of votes for passage, but rejected because the majority leader simply used procedures once again to deny the minority any opportunity -- of course, that includes the majority also -- any opportunity to stand on this floor, offer up an amendment and debate that amendment, have it voted on, accept the result and then move forward. so the two that i had mentioned, the two reforms which i thought made eminent sense, i didn't find much opposition