While that is being worked out by the staff in the hopes of achieving an agreement. Yeah. The reason I'm reluctant to do this is we've negotiated this, you know, at length. And so now, now Senator Merkley's proposed one amendment, but now he's proposing a different amendment and something that we had negotiated for quite a while and ended up with it in there as report language. And that was a compromise we had come to. And that's why I'm reticent. And so I'm perfectly willing to let the staff talk here a little bit, see where they come out. (09:38–09:49)
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