But look, this year has been, when we came into session, obviously, sorry, came into the new year in 2020, like everybody, I had great expectations for lots of wonderful things. Our economy was the best in all of America. Texas was doing extraordinarily well because the fact that we've made good decisions as lawmakers and our executive leadership of the state for many, many years. But we came into a situation, obviously as we got into late February and the beginning of March, where everything stopped and the world was turned upside down, as you said earlier. (10:21–10:34)
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