she and i worked on a number of bipartisan things before. we have a bipart son group of 12 and eventually 13 senators to work through these issues. i think the framework that we came up with in our group is the framework that you know, the president and the two leaders are now looking at. but nonetheless, i think that that's a workable framework. i think that it does have bipartisan support. it should have bipartisan support in the house. one of the goals we really set out within our group, look, we don't want 60 votes. we want to get 70, 75, 80 votes on this if we possibly can. we think that puts pressure on the house to get this passed. >> why should people be happy if this deal happens when essentially it's kicking the can down the road, isn't it? >> let me say this. we should not be in this situation. again, we have a small group of republicans driving the train, especially on the house side. it's very unfortunate but