 the speaker of the house. What do you do? The speaker of the house manages the house. Is that possible? Not very, but you try to. What we have been doing to date is getting bills to be assigned to committees, to refer to bills. And now we have committees that are here in the bills and I'm monitoring the hearings and then of course try to guide them to different areas with the house policies that we may have. And this is going into the first second reading bills. That's what we have now. And then we get to monitor the progress. In the meantime I have a lot of administrative works to do, allow for sick leaves, vacation leaves, terminations, hirings, all the things that the manager does. So this is like a little business here. We have departments under us. We have the Sergeant at Arms. They keep order in the house and in the legislature. And we have the HMSO. That's the majority house. That's what they do is they write bills for the members. They analyze bills. They have attorneys to look at the bills whether it's legal or not legal. Does it pass master? So we have all these things working together in tandem. And I'm at I guess at the top of the pole by the approval of the members and to see that it runs as smoothly as it can be. So you are elected to this position? Yes. While I need to have the majority of the votes of the legislature, both the majority and the Republican, I mean and the minority. So I need 26 votes. Otherwise I won't be speaker anymore. Okay. How long have you been speaker? I'm in my going into my 11th year and when I finish my term I'll be 12 years a speaker. But you've been speaker twice, right? This is my second time as speaker. My first time was six years and I'm going to another six year term. Beyond that I cannot predict. Oh come on. Now what district do you represent as a representative? What district are you from? I represent the 8th district in Waikapu. It covers all the way from the back of the neck from Kahakalor to to the neck and that's Waikapu and Waikapu and then it goes, it stops at Waikapu. So you look at the head, the back of the head and then you come to the neck and it goes all the way to Waikapu. Waikapu and Waikapu and Kahakalor. Very diverse. So that's such a lovely area. How do you like living over here? Well my wife enjoys when I'm here. She stays in Maui, huh? Well we've been married 53 years and we love each other. We call each other every night. I call her and say that I'm still alive and hanging in there and she tells me good. And then we see each other on weekends. Oh you go home every weekend? Yes. As much as I can. There's some weekends I can't. I have other things that I need. I need to work here on the weekend sometimes. Other times I'm invited to different functions that it's kind of obligatory as the speaker to go to. So now I want to ask you are there any contentious bills going on? We were here earlier all afternoon and it seems so quiet. Well there's a big undercurrent. Every bill that is heard is in some way contentious. Contentious to the person who wrote the bill and who sponsored the bill. For them it's very important that the bill will pass. And for the chairman his job is to screen the bills and make sure he can come out with bills that will help the state of Hawaii. And that's the bottom line is how will this bill enhance the state for the present time and for the future. Well of course I'm going to ask you about bill 201. Medical aid and dying. Since you made that a priority at the opening of the legislature you said that was one of your priorities. How is it doing. Well it hasn't been heard yet but I believe it will because we have a lot of time yet. The bill has been referred to judiciary and finance. And as I said we're only going into second reading now and you need four readings on the line. So it's very early. But at this point I can say that the majority of the house I think I believe feels favorably for the passage of the bill. So what happens. Let's say that we go through the hearings and all of these that goes through this committee and then this committee and that committee. What happens in the Senate. Does it cross over. Does it does that Senate have a bill. What happens. Well there is many times the Senate and House bill will have similar bills and they will cross. And if there is any differences and then they will go into conference. That's the basic system. And similarly with this. The right to take your own life. And that bill will eventually hopefully pass to committees. And then go to the floor to vote and go to the Senate. And I cannot speak for the Senate. I can only speak for the House. And Mr. Kochi can give you more updated information. When you say.