office for their hard work on the bill, the efforts and dedication of tim brown, warren burke, alison bell, pope barrow and their colleagues in the office of legislative council who were indispensable for writing this wide raining and historic legislation -- ranging and historic legislation. similarly, colleagues at the congressional budget office were essential in analyzing the complex financial and scoring issues associated with this bill, both the staff of the legislative council and the c.b.o. deserve to be thanked and congratulated for their outstanding work over many late nights and weekends and we're very he grateful to their -- for their service to the nation. and i would like to add my appreciation to the fantastic job that our committee and subcommittee and select committee staffs have done in getting this legislation before the congress of the united states. mr. speaker, i would like to yield to my colleague on this legislation, congressman ed markey. mr. markey: i thank you, henry, very much. the speaker pro tempore: will the gentleman suspend? the house will be in order. membe