i had the opportunity of serving with tom osborne in the house when he was a congressman. and tom was very concerned about that because we're not consistent, we trade with a lot worse actors that cuba is. but tom used to get up and i can hear him say it like yesterday. he would get up and say, that as a young coach, he figured out pretty quickly if you ran the same play 40 times in a row and it didn't work, you needed to run something different. meaning that was the year whenever that was that this was in place. our policies have not worked and if they need to be changed, it would be good for the american farmer, something we eventually need to get done. i yield back. >> i watch to just add my support for what's been said and i these i mentioned before, before the committee, but when i was down in louisiana talking to rice growers, they said just open cuba and we'll be fine. it makes no sense for us to be stubborn about this and not be very smart about it. >> senator nelson? >> i want to include my comments about cuba, i think it's time to put aside the politics and look to