states, to run these issues the way they should be rufnlt and they should not be acting as a superlegislature, enacting laws from a partisan board. to do these things. this is not some little issue. this is a big issue, and i want to -- i wish i wasn't in the middle of it. i just happened to be here one day when i was the last one here and had to object. but i knew that when i did object, it was the right thing to do under the circumstances. if we allow these boards to usurp our powers of the legislative branch of government and just do anything they want to do because they have a supermajority, a super partisan majority, then this country can't last and the freedoms we all value won't last. i don't want to see anybody not pay. i don't want to see anybody not be able to do their job. by gosh, i don't want to see a runaway national mediation board either or a national labor relations board that would use a precedent like this in ways that really shouldn't be used. so these are not small issues. i hope we can get together. i hope that the two committees will get together and resolve this issue.