i thank the gentleman for that information. as i said, one concern we had on our side of the aisle was the riders, many of which we thought were inappropriate and did not favor them. the second was the level of funding. they thought the monies available to them under the ryan constrictions on 302-a were too low to meet some of the commitments they had. does the gentleman believe we re going to have time to bring each one of the appropriations bills to the floor between now and let s say the august break so that the senate might consider them and we might consider them individually as opposed to some omnibus piece of legislation? i yield to my friend. mr. speaker, all i can say to the gentleman is certainly the commitment and intention we have is to bring these forward for open and fair debate. i know that pregs. this is a democratic process, as he now hosts it n a very new environment in which we re operating an appropriations bill, the commitment that we have still that