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Won everything, it would have been tough for us because the political attacks would have taken place from the other side of the aisle to take on entitlements reform. Now that we have a president of one party in the house of representatives of another party, i believe we can tackle this issue. That is really what we desire. It is the right thing to do. We are in the midst of tough negotiations taking place between two people the president of the United States, barack obama, and the speaker of the house, john data. I want to express my appreciation and the speaker of the house, john boehner. I want to express my appreciation to my colleagues. I have served in the minority. It is challenging. It is not easy. We are 11 days away from going over the fiscal cliff. We feel strongly about the need of this institution to state its position on this. We heard the majority leader in the United States senate indicate that he does not want to bring up this measure if it passes the house of represent