chris cobak? >> yes, madam president, i think all of us received the letter from representative hoyer, and it was addressed to every secretary of state in the country, and i, too, was disturbed by the letter, and although i did offer my own response in defense of my particular state's changes of its election laws, i think it is appropriate for this body to respond in some fashion because it was addressed to all of us collectively. i drafted a resolution that is very short and to the point and it's nonpartisan. and it's balanced. it simply says that we all have the right to do whatever we believe will improve our election procedures and that that can include a variety of different things and that you know, nass stands for the non-partisan and federalist principle that the states may pursue their course provided they are pursued in good faith and that they are consistent with the united states constitution. i'll send around some copies of this and pass it around. i would like to introduce the resolu

we would like to turn the time over the secretary cobak to speak about voter outreach. >> thank you secretary schultz, this will be a short presentation, we were going to present a video, because of the lighting needs of the networks covering this we were not able to do that, so i'll direct you to a website, and i'll direct you to your own later we have been discussing the great activity at the state level. there were laws passed changing and improving whatever the voting procedures are in the various states and those changes came in all shapes and sizes. we in kansas enacted the secure and fair elections act and used that information to try to, you know, try to drive up voter participation as well. and we sent out an rsvp to media consultants to come up with ideas for how the campaign could be effective and we had a creative one that was in our bidding process and it's a play on the old "got milk" ads you may remember. and our ad campaign has photo id, we send people to the website and they learn about the requirement office the photo id law and learn requirements and and helpful places to g