legislation for working families passed since the 1930s and the great depression. >> let me ask you about that because i -- i don't want to put words in your mouth. you seemed to suggest today that you would be open to lowering the 6 trillion price tag of that bill. you said you think 6 trillion is the appropriate amount but acknowledge you have to work with 49 other members of the democratic caucus. can you say what you are willing to compromise on? or what you -- what you see this actually coming as? >> well, if the bipartisan bill is passed and that will have, i think, something like 570 billion in new money. that's simply -- those are, pretty much, the programs that we're going to put into reconciliation. so, that's a heck of a lot of money. we're not going to build the same bridge, twice. so, you can deduct some of that from what we're trying to do. look. what the process, as you well know, is about. i got to deal with 49 other people and somebody says you should spend more on this. spend less on that. you know? and my job is to kind of work it all out so that, at the end of