dr. gingrey. mr. gingrey: i thank the gentleman very much for yielding and i thank him for his kind words and i'm happy to share the time with him tonight and plan to remain on the house floor for the rest of this hour and i will make some comments and yield back to dr. fleming, and maybe he will yield some additional time to me in the hour. but i couldn't help but notice in the previous hour, which was allotted to our democratic colleagues their leadership hour, they went first tonight, and think chose to talk about the snap program. snap is an acronym for the supplemental nutritional assistance program which we formerly known and people know it as the food stamp program and they spent the -- talking about cutting discretionary federal spending and reducing government bureaucracy and bloatedness in saying that, you do that, you hurt the poor and the nearly poor that they desperately need these programs. and they made some legitimate points, of course. and we're talking about health care in our hour, a