government for a year, so they've won big. if the cost of that is money for a bipartisan natural gas payback program to nevada county, i would imagine that many will lump it, accept that, and go home for christmas. jenna: quick question here about the lame duck session overall because so much has been made of this particular one. is it really that different from other lame duck sessions, chris, when you look over the last few years? >> well, if we take the broad view of history, either the last few years or the very broad view of history, this is a perhaps unprecedentedly large agenda for a lame duck session to take up. usually a lame duck is for unfinished business, little things that are hanging -- hanging out there but because of the historic nature of the elections and because democrats opted to push so many important issues beyond the election in hopes of not losing as many seats by dealing with those issues, this has turned out to be one of the biggest, most exhausting and i think you saw there from senator graham, you know,