Top. But long before that vote occurred she, too, has been talking to her colleagues noting that freedom for american citizens means freedom to pursue your mission in life, your meaning in life through your work, and that discrimination in the workplace diminishes the individual but diminishes the full potential of our nation as well. So we are now all hoping that we will be able to have final votes on amendments and votes to close debate and to have a final vote sometime tomorrow. That work is not yet done. In the the path before us may still have unexpected challenges to be overcome but as we overcome them and approach that final vote it will be in large measure because of the terrific work of these two colleagues. Thank you, mr. President. The presiding officer the senior senator from delaware is recognized. Mr. Carper good afternoon, mr. President , my colleague from oregon. My wife ran into one of her colleagues the other day, ted kaufman. He was the interim senator, succeeded joe