records for a vote a rama, what we call these extensive 13-hour-long debates, more than 100 amendments that were considered. but it s working the will of the senate, frankly. and it also, one of the things that s key we focus on is some of the amendments that did or didn t pass because they are going to be used in some of these elections in 2014 in terms of the keystone pipeline, for example. that amendment did pass. bill, anna brings up a significant point, a lot of folks who have been talking about this idea that the lion s share of what we saw unfold last night over on c-span, a lot of that was designed for campaign ads a lot was just for campaign commercials what does that say about the budget process? it is actually moving forward because the democrats have finally said they do support raising tax, only on the wealthy americans but esensely, what s changed, they didn t pass a budget for four years, any budget threat they passed would have included a tax increase and felt vul