Is so key, i would like you in your very eloquent way explain to us why certainty is so critical. And if you didnt have the certainty of this federal bill, how it could impact you back home. Again, i know its repetitious, but its important. Thats the message i would like to see go out of this hearing. Again, let me say, i think certainty is the most important thing that we have to deal with. And over the last five or six years, we have not had that certainty obviously. And so we need it to plan. I mean if we dont have we need five six, ten years whatever the number of years that you decide, we just need to know what those are and we need to plan accordingly. And, this program that i have put in place and was able to actually put in place without legislation because the people of alabama had allowed us to borrow the garvey bonds. So were using future federal dollars. And so the certainty is so important for me because i signed a billion dollars in bonds and i want to make sure we pay it
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