 almost the entire year before the budget was introduced. The situation now is closer to speed dating, where the members ask to swipe left or right on the document when it's presented to them. What we heard from members on both sides of the aisle, both Republicans and Democrats, who expressed a lot of frustration that not only were they not involved in the process of crafting it, but also that they were voting on it and didn't necessarily have a great sense of what was in it.