dr. burgess. mr. burgess: i thank the gentleman for yielding and the gentleman has done an excellent job at delineating where we've been, what's been happening and perhaps where we're going. you know, this summer was truly a remarkable tinal in drn time in this country when the people -- time in this country when the people, the beauty of anticipatory democracy was on dispray literally from sea to shining sea from border to border and i certainly felt it in my district. i know it was felt in a number of congressional districts. we've seen the results of that. the gentleman's quite correct, the blue dogs who were so active during the summer months leading up to the august recess have really been under enormous pressure by their leadership on their side and now we've seen in the past several days, i think by my count, four retirements from that group. i don't know whether we'll be seeing more but it certainly is something that you cannot fail to notice. now, the gentleman from iowa has correctly identifi

dr. burgess i have spent 26 years practicing medicine. in that specialty i am very proud member of the american college of obstetrics and gynecology and i am a board certified fellow. we take our recommendations from that organization, and from the standard of care in the community, my community, the greater atlanta area about what our best practices and the american public and particularly the american women, they know who the american cancer society is. they know who the susan g. komen for the cure organization is. many of them helped raise money for that organization by ferry few of them have never heard of the united states prevented the it services task force or in what departments they are embedded and how much power they have and how much authority they may have mr. chairman. they will find out pretty darn soon and i would refer them to pages in both the house and the senate bill, the senate bill for spending, the house bill 3962 and let them just connect the dots and to see the power that this organization, this u.s. preventative

dr. burgess i have spent 26 years practicing medicine. in that specialty i am very proud member of the american college of obstetrics and gynecology and i am a board certified fellow. we take our recommendations from that organization, and from the standard of care in the community, my community, the greater atlanta area about what our best practices and the american public and particularly the american women, they know who the american cancer society is. they know who the susan g. komen for the cure organization is. many of them helped raise money for that organization by ferry few of them have never heard of the united states prevented the it services task force or in what departments they are embedded and how much power they have and how much authority they may have mr. chairman. they will find out pretty darn soon and i would refer them to pages in both the house and the senate bill, the senate bill for spending, the house bill 3962 and let them just connect the dots and to see the power that this organization, this u.s. preventative

dr. burgess asked that you submit the vote from your committee as you arrived at your findings and guidance you submit that vote, who voted and how. one thing i would like you to do for the record is also submit to us your science or evidence upon which you based your recommendations? what was reviewed? what studies, what findings, what group? if we can have that as part of the record, i think that would be very instructive to us as we decide how to best move forward. i would like to ask y'all to do that. i'd also like to know what period of time, how long did you spend on this? how long was this up for discussion and under review? what was the thought process and the matrix that you worked from to come to this decision? let us see a little bit about what you went through, and how you went through it. how you worked, what your process is, how you arrived at those decisions? i do honestly believe that will be helpful to us with an understanding. i will have to say i agree with some of my colleagues, you probably stepped into a bit of a quagmire that you did not expect. as you release these f