marshalling this bill. some tweaking was done and i will be forever grateful to my friend, rob woodall, who is brilliant as his predecessor, dear friend, john linder, and he took this bill and he marshalled it through. he kept his word and i will be forever grateful for that. it came to the floor. and the senate wouldn't take it up. for those that want to talk about the children, i'm not hearing a lot of that talk today. because when i talk to college students, high school students, junior high students, they're wondering why they're going to have to pay the debts that we were not responsible enough to pay ourselves. there's not a good answer. it is absolutely immoralable. it's neglect. to say one generation like ours is so much more important that e have to spend future generations' money. and yes, if there's inflation, let's deal with it that year. but i've heard enough stories people talking about, gee, this important -- this department is apparently out there saying, spend their money. don't leave any. if you don't you won't get much next year. they get an automatic increase. of course they spend their