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do need to comment as it exists today, there is tremendous cooperation within the truck shortage crippenanufacturing community. as referenced earlier, there is no formal process. it's an informal process and i can speak on behalf of teva and other manufacturers in the state that we too will collaborate with the fds testified earlier in the take that very seriously. we are responding where we can be a doctor ribs and example mentioned earlier. i received a phone cow to do what we can. we'll be able to work in collaboration with the get product release to market and we continue to prioritize those types of products. during question i'll be more than happy to go into greater detail about how we are seeing the court nation and effect this is how we would like to see a greater communication amongst multiple state kernels -- multiple stakeholders beyond the manufacturing fda. going forward, we had seen discretion by the agency deployed to allow earlier availability of key products. that is working. we would like to see a process in which we can get that on the front end as well to potentially

dan crippen is the executive director of the national governors' association and a former director of the congressional budget office. doug holtz-eakin is the president of the american action forum and a former director of the congressional budget office. alice rivlin not only served recently as a member of the presidents' day commission but is the founding director of the congressional budget office. last but certainly not least is nancy taylor, who served in several positions in the u.s. senate, including health policy director for the senate committee on labor and human resources. these folks are here to help us work through some of the issues regarding entitlement spending. let's take profits just a few minutes to kind of set the stage. i will ask this question of all four of you. all of you are very astute observers of congress and the budget process. it is kind of a two or three part question. how difficult is the challenge that congress basis? i realize that there are many answers that have been put forth on the part of policy advisers, but how difficult is the challenge over t