senator mccain's language, not to be weakened by the cochran pharma language as senator mccain suggested, and coupled with what we can do in biologics and other things. i think it will bring prices down for consumers, hospitals and private payers and tax payers. >&$,gb i am going to make a request of the -- where did he go? it's a little hard to make a request of him if he is not here. >> senator mccain left me a note asking me to manage the amendments because he has to go back to armed services. >> my request is for him to defer this to the coverage section. it is coverage. it could be voted on there. i suspect it won't change a single vote, but that would allow us to put in an amendment without changing the precedent for the committee for second degree amendments. i suspect it will get the same result at that time that it would right now. i would just ask for that courtesy, partly because i have no way to know what the proxies would be on my committee for either the, what would be a second degree amendment or the mccain amendment. i'm not prepared for that. >> why don't we do that. why

senator mccain's language, not to be weakened by the cochran pharma language as senator mccain suggested, and coupled with what we can do in biologics and other things. i think it will bring prices down for consumers, hospitals and private payers and tax payers. >> mr. chairman, i am going to apologize to my committee member and to the chairman, the ranking member did not do an adequate job here. i am not going to ask for the uc for a second degree amendment because i think it's a terrible precedent for us to set -- we'll never get our committee work done if we start having second degree amendments on amendments. we do need to get committee work done. i am not going to make that request. i am going to make a request of the -- where did he go? it's a little hard to make a request of him if he is not here. >> senator mccain left me a note asking me to manage the amendments because he has to go back to armed services. >> my request is for him to defer this to the coverage section. it is coverage. it could be voted on there. i suspect it won't change a single vote, but that would allow us to