unreasonable. but there's still a lot of posturing going on and this, unfortunately, is how we pass legislation these days. >> but this is really interesting, congressman. what you seem to be saying -- and i want to be clear on this -- you're saying that for members of the house progressive caucus, assurances will be enough to get this vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill done this week. >> yeah. i think so. i've talkedo a lot of progressives and, again, some are sounding pretty adamant. but i think in the final analis, they're going to reize that the -- that this is their objective and the only way to get it done is to have some trust, and that's i think what speaker pelosi's number one task right now. i think the president's engaged in that effort as well. but the ones i've talked to are more pragmatic than they sound when they're drawing these lines. and it's unfortunate they are. but a lot of these members who are now the ones speaking out and drawing the lines have