kathy martinez is the assistant secretary for the disability, kathy is the nominee for the administration for aging department of health and human services. i want to thank chairman kennedy and remember mike enzi for their work on the nominations. >> i have comments i will put in the record it's been clear on our side. >> all of those in favor say aye, the ayes appear to have it and the nominees are confirmed by the committee. they will be reported. let me go back if i can to senator mikulski about amendments that have been cleared. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to say to the committee we had a good day yesterday. we accepted 17 amendments, and very few from our side, but as the other side of the aisle offered suggestions and we could either accept them because they did improve the bill, senator enzi amendment men's particularly comparative effectiveness were constructive and we voted on two of them. i believe we could finish quality today or certainly finish quality on monday. let me get to what we could accept overnight. i have four amendments we could accept. number one, we can ac