cbo just announced the deficit figures and looking at them now, $804 billion in 2018 but if we do nothing looking at $1.5 trillion in 2018. in addition to that, you also saw the affordable care act, or obama care, repeal and replace did not happen. is that something those two things, do you think you ll continue to work on those in whatever you decide to do next? those two things are one in the same. repealing and replacing obama care is entitlement reform. that s one big thing that we still haven t done. what i m proud to say, the house has done it. ever since i became the head of the house committee, they have balanced budgets. the house did pass the biggest entitlement reform bill last year that congress has ever considered, which would have done more to shave trillions of dollars in debt off the books than anything else congress has ever done. so i m really proud dana: some of our allies might think you might need to
have a really good record to run on. dana: there are still 19 states that have not had their filing deadlines passed. what advice would you have to those on the fence? i think people should stay. my experience being speaker of the house is different than being a member of congress. when i was chairman of the ways and means committee, i was at home with my family during congressional recess. last week i was in san antonio, houston, dallas, corpus christi, texarkana and austin. just to name a few. and wisconsin. so that s a little different than this job. this job, because of it, requires a great deal of travel. such to the point where i basically see my family on sundays. and when your kids are growing, my we re looking at colleges a week ago. it s pretty big. that s why. dana: do you plan to stay in jamesville? do you think you ll keep your family there? yeah yeah. i have no plans to change any of that. dana: i wanted to ask you about just the change of the