And so we decided to take it on. We were breaking our constitution in the State, and we took it on. And we worked with downtown, we worked with everybody across the State, and we came up with a solution and it's working. There's money in the bank in Iowa. The unemployment rate is around 6 percent, and that's something we need to be striving to achieve here. We can do it. What we have left out in this that we need to consider as we go through the steps is how do we include the revenue side of it. We had a revenue piece. But it's working. And it'll work here. We can do this. Let's work together. I urge an ``aye'' vote.
Leonard L. Boswell: “And so we decided to take it on. We were breaking our constitution in the State, and we took it on. And we worked with…”
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