you've written books about the way congress is supposed to work. you on this committee of 17 working with veteran appropriators trying to come to a deal here and having the relationship with the white house as bad as it is. how do we repair this? >> i'm not sure it's repairable without a new ps that has a different way of operating. but i think the -- what you saw last wednesday was for real in terms of the appropriators coming together and understanding that we needed to come to a meeting of the minds on this and appropriations has this history as a relatively bipartisan committee standing up for the institution no matter who the approximated is. it is very, very important to recapture that and i'm not sure if this is the moment, but i would love to see an agreement