washington, pamela, are not infallible. i helped to write a foreign bill in 2014 that said would only save taxpayers $23 billion in mandatory spending and in less than three years they came back and said they were wrong, we saved $104 billion. we believe the economic growth will reduce the deficit, and yes, i want to make the individual tax rates permanent. i hope from what i read from bernie sanders this weekend that he joins me when we pass that bill over to the senate. frankly, bernie could have gotten seven more democrats just a week ago and made these individual tax cuts permanent now. >> you guys left for the holiday break with some issues on the table that need to be resolved. earlier this month you and 33 other house republicans sent a letter to speaker ryan reaching across the aisle to protect daca recipients and that did not