And the way it works in the Senate is, is when you're drafting that bill, each committee chairman drafts whatever is in their jurisdiction. So I am the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. That committee covers about 40% of the US economy. What that means is that everything within that jurisdiction I wrote, I had the lead pen and wrote, so for example, one port, one thing that is in the commerce jurisdiction is the Coast Guard. (07:06–07:14)
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