congress so i don't think so. we passed a massive rescue package and we're on the brink of drafting probably the most transformational legislation we have seen with the smallest majorities. so i think as soon as we deliver this, people will forget this time. the virginia election just happens to fall right in the midst of all this. but actually, when you think about it, nicolle, i'm really proud of what the president has done. i'm proud of this transformative agenda, and i'm really proud of congress for working so hard to get this piece of legislation across the finish line. >> do you ever -- you know, in your non-message discipline moments, your non-all these programs mean real things to real people who are struggling at that brink of maybe desperation or poverty or despair, do you ever think that somebody would have been better than a process that dragged on this long or are the programs that important to people's lives that whatever the political fallout, sobeit? >> i don't think the -- i don't accept the premise that the