that never in his life had he worked anywhere with such a dysfunctional relationship with simple deadlines. the idea of getting your work done ahead of time. it is built in, but the political will to change it has been lacking. the bottom line is we're -- this conversation, we could do it now. we could do it later. we're going to go back to talking about the filibuster. that's what this is about. it is about the inability to breakthrough with legislation, and the rules in this body. it is not sexy, but until a majority party, this one, perhaps a future republican one, decides they want to get serious about moving things through congress in an orderly way that allows the majority whoever it may be to pass things, whether with amendments from the other side or without, it's going to stay like this. it has been stay sis for a while. and there's no other way i think to ultimately break that if we as a country want to break it. >> and let's go more short-term and near-term. so we avoided the government