among the speakers, agriculture secretary tom vilsack and new jersey representative frank pallone. this is an hour, ten minutes. i just want to tell you that i think we're very, very honored today to have the secretary of agriculture. i was speaking to him a few moments ago, and he was mayor for five years of pleasant, iowa, i believe it was -- mount pleasant, iowa. i think once you're mayor, you're always a mayor. you know, you kind of go around cities and you're looking at streets and you're looking at stores and residential neighborhoods and all that. but so he is now secretary of agriculture. and they gave me a little bit of literature. i just want to read one thing. i want to turn it over to him so he can make remarks. and then i want this to be a dialogue to where we have a little bit of a question and answer and talk to him about some of the things that we're doing. but one thing in particular is that he entered into a partnership with the department of energy and the u.s. navy to invest up to $510 million during the next three years to produce advanced drop in aviation mari

new jersey democrat frank pallone, sits on the house energy and commerce committee and is involved inhe investigation. i guess that's where we should start, congressman. how did this come about? why is congress involved here? >> there were a lot of reports that there were false and misleading information that was being given out at tanning salons. that's why we asked that the committee do this undercover investigation. and frankly the report was jarring. i mean the fact that very rarely was anything mentioned about the health risks. we know that incidents of melanoma are increased by 75%, you know, if for people who use, who use indoor tanning salons. there were even suggestions somehow you were going to benefit. you were going to get more vitamin-d for example, if you tanned in an indoor salon. so it was pretty jarring that there was a lot of false and misleading information. jenna: so the indoor tanning association does have a statement about this and they did mention vitamin-d which you mentioned as well. they quote a recent study by harvard says 77% of the american public is vitam