i am going to make a request -- worded viggo? >> he laughed. >> it's a little hard for me to make a request of him if he is not here. >> mr. chairman, senator mccain said he had to go back to armed services. >> my request he will probably want to have some input on for him to defer this to the coverage section. it is coverage and could be voted on there and i suspect it won't change a single vote but that would allow us to put an amendment without changing the precedent for the committee for second degree eminence. i suspect that it will get the same result at that time that they would right now so i would just ask for that courtesy partly because i have no way to know what the proxy's would be on my committee for either: be a second-degree amendment or a mccain amendment. i am not prepared for that. >> senator mccain's staff is here? i presume. there you are. >> they would object and i would. i think we vote on this and can deal with that. >> mr. chairman, i would ask senator brown to hold on this to do under the coverage sectio