if what he is doing is making sure people understand what it is that is actually in these packages. this is a case where the sum is greater than the parts. there are programs within this package that are important to people s lives relating to child care, to universal p prekindergarten and climate is obviously addressed in here. so health care. a whole range of things that are meaningful to people in their lives. if you don t talk about the individual components of it, then it just becomes a big washington fight over dollars and numbers. and that s not helpful to him. the second thing he has to do is just continue the process of negotiating. he needs to find out what everybody s bottom line is. it seemed to me at the end of the week people were going home to think about that. not just the number, but what are the things they could dispense with in this package. how could it be shaped in order to meet the desires of the other side.