speaker, four years ago i went to then-majority leader eric cantor and committee chairman fred upton and asked permission to create a task force, a bipartisan task force, equal numbers of republicans and democrats from the energy and commerce committee and the appropriations committee to work with outside groups and experts to see if there were not some ideas that we could put forward in legislation to improve the ability to find and implement cures for all the various diseases that afflict our nation. mr. upton and mr. cantor approved that task force. we had a task force of 12 members -- i mean, 24 members, and we had an outside group that included several nobel prize winners, leaders from johns hopkins, m.d. anderson, former directors of n.i.h., f.d.a. that morphed into the beginning of this congress to a task force that diane degette and chairman upton led themselves and that has led to a bipartisan bill that has been pointed out came out of committee 51-0. that is an amazingly extraordinarily positive accomplishment to have total ue a numberity to have in this -- unamity to have