And Jim in particular has been a good source of counsel over many of these years. And I, when Morris was introducing me, he was talking about the Ways and Means Committee. You know, The Ways and Means Committee is the only committee that's mentioned in our Constitution. and it implies, as the term does, responsibility for the ways and means of raising the revenue to administer the government. And there's never a clean, easy, neat way to raise the revenue. (08:12–08:17)
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