conference and sit down and resolve this bill as quickly as possible. i sent a letter to the president today asking him to do just this. we have done our work for the american people. now it's up to the president, the democrats in the senate to do their job as well. i'll take a couple questions. we have done our job, all we need now is to resolve our differences. a two-month extension is nothing more than kicking the can down the road. the president has asked to us do this for a full year, we did it for a full year. we offset costs with reasonable offsets. there is no reason we can't do this. you will remember just several weeks ago the house passed a dod authorization bill, the senate passed theirs. in the period of less than a