why should we say it's a choice between a routine operation which is what you are requesting or a sal vagjob. and the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything. >> two kinds of responses to that. one, i think there are some provisions that i would idey pe this statute and the case for severing those is perhaps the strongest. i think it is fundamentally different because if we were in here arguing that some provision on the periphery. the provisions that have constitutional difficulties or are tied at the hip to those provisions that have the constitutional difficulty are at the heart of this act. if you look at how they are textually interconnected and connected to the revenue offsets and connected to medicaid, what you end up with at the end of that process is a hollow shell. at that point i think there is a strong argument. you can't possibly think that congress would have passed that hollow shell. >> it would have passed parts of the hollow shell. a lot of this is reauthorization of proappropriatuations that ha been reauthorized. can you suggest the b