energy. i looked at the numbers and although that's a great goal and we need to get there, there's no one that believes it more than me, it wasn't going to happen right away. we were importing gas to massachusetts from russia, where there are no climate protections whatsoever. i got a lot of heat for that from my own party. i was trying to make a decision based on the facts. another was -- these are the tough issues in congress when we had an issue on gmo labelling for example. and a lot of people gave me heat to agreeing to a compromise deal, because they wanted better gmo labelling. i said, it's better to have some gmo labelling than nothing at all. that's what i did. thanks. >> thank you. >> there's also on the issue of marijuana legalization, there's the marijuana justice act that was proposed in the senate, five senators who are running for the nomination have approved it, you've signed on as co sponsor,