And for those folks that might not know, Joint Finance Committee is the committee that kind of mulls through and does the budget, comes up with the proposals, decides what goes in, what doesn't go in. So it It's sometimes historically been tough to get rural legislators on the Joint Finance Committee. And we're pretty blessed these days. We've got Mary Foskowski up in the Northeast, then Shannon right there on the western side of the state on the Joint Finance Committee. (32:18–32:26)
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