romanoff. and a month ago michael bennet was the hero of the public option. he was saying let's fight for this thing. and he can introduce an amendment for one and leadership doesn't want him to. he'll be a good boy and he won't do it. romanoff is saying if i was in the senate i would do it. he's starting to look like an unprincipled hack when he was only looking to fund-raise when it didn't matter. i think that you're seeing a lot of people in the senate, in the house, who got forced to walk the plank and vote for something that could potentially cost them. and i guess i just wanted to know from you, john, what are you hearing from members of congress, from the senate who think that they took a chance voting for this bill? >> well, many do think they take a chance, jane. in my reporting what you get in a sense from democrats is that they did come to agree with the white house conclusion that doing nothing would be worse. if they voted no, they were still not going to get republican votes. so their only hope was to try to get the base back. you try to get the labor unions