came, there was a lot of politicking and debate. you think about to immigration, over spending, over war, over the financial crisis, over keeping government open. i was a former congressional reporter so i was down on the hill to see what was the mood like yesterday on the hill? unlike many of those other votes when the debate was going up and there was arm twisting going on, sometimes the floor itself during the debate, yesterday it was totally a foregone conclusion. i'm reminded of things like the medicare expansion debate. it was only a vote held open for three hours in the middle of the night to get final vote. or even sort of during the trump administration some of these votes been very consequential to the last minute. we didn't know that brett kavanaugh was going to be confirmed to the supreme court until susan collin gave her speech just hours before the final vote. and remember the big one on the repeal of the affordable care act, we didn't know how that was going down until the very last vote when john mccain came out and gave the fateful thumbs down. yesterday we knew what was going to happen before it started. it speaks very much to the power