republican leaders can get to the desk, and it is a signal to how washington should work, and my hope is now that they build on the agreement with the spending bills so that also invest in america's priorities without getting side tracked by a whole bunch of ideological issues that have nothing to do with our budget. so this is the first step between now and the middle of december before the christmas break, and the appropriators will have to do their job, and come up with the spending bills, and this provides them with the guideposts and the baseline with which to can do that and i'm confident that they can get it done on time and there's no better christmas present for the american people, because this will allow the kind of stability and will allow the economy to grow at a time when you've got a great weakness in economies around the world. this puts us on a responsible path and makes sure that the american people are the