world, is not exactly safer. bill: i think you make a compelling argument. where do you cut a deal to make sure that doesn't happen? >> well, right now everybody is focused on just getting out of town, doing all of the other things that are just necessary that have to be done before december 16th. myself, i'm really focused on getting our defense authorization bill down. it's on the senate florida, should be finished up torpbgts and we'll gtonight, and we'll go into full bore on the conference report. we want to get that done before december 16th. probably -- bill: go ahead, i'll let you get your last point in there, sir. >> i think when we come back after the holidays we will really bore in on this. as we go through the budget cycle people say, we don't have to worry, it doesn't kick in until a year from january. the budget cycle starts october 1st of next year, so if they are not thinking about it and planning for it, we could