>> i am very encouraged by this. also by what i am saying in the senate. i think we are moving to a point where there is a much broader understanding that this has to happen. and this is going to happen to happen without republican support, so they are going to have to change the rules to make it happen. just a word on rand paul, this is not the first time we have seen the level of breathtaking hypocrisy by republicans in congress. many of whom, staunchly opposed aid when it came to hurricane sandy for a new york in new jersey. then turned around when it was mississippi or alabama, or kentucky, they wanted. for paul, who has opposed aide who says it has to be offset with the same -- with his offset. there wasn't any word of that now. it raises the stakes here in many ways, getting back to voting rights. because it makes it clear, that if we don't make changes in the election system, we are not just going to lose our democracy, we are going to have