aide i spoke to said this is what the caucus wants. they want everyone to go on the record. they're not willing to give up now. and one activist i spoke to deeply involved said it would be highly demoralizing for the civil rights community after a year of pressure trying to get this done that they simply pull the plug now and this activist argued any cost to doing this is already sunk. they further said that they don't want senators to be able to sink key portions of the democratic party's agenda simply with words. they want to put everyone on the record, and that's what we're likely to see in the coming days. >> i'm going to talk about that with the congressman in a moment. i want to go back to gary for just a moment. gary, on this mlk holiday, you have hundreds, if not thousands of folks walking on the streets of washington. have you gotten any indication from them what they may do if and when the bills don't pass later this week?