by without telling the chairman of the subcommittee's have worked so hard on us, rob andrews, frank malone, and the ways and means peter stark has for decades been working on its ear and i want to thank the staffs of the three committees. we have relied heavily on them, we will meet and decide the direction we want to go, but they have had responsibility and working with all the committees and working together. .. working so seamlessly together and coming out with this discussion proposal. thank you. [inaudible conversations] one [inaudible conversations] mal remarks on health care reform with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. this is a few minutes. mr. president, one thing republicans and democrats can agree on is the need for serious health care reform. one the president obama spoke to the american medical is as a nation to discuss the issue. i applaud the president for his commitment to health care reform and agree we need to make health care more affordable and accessible to all americans. while the american people want reform they want us to fix what's wrong with the system with