mr. walden. ms. blackburn, opening statement. >> thank you mr. chairman and i want to welcome our witnesses and think them for being with us today as you have heard, we all are concerned when about bottled water, the product that is there. we're concerned about tap water and the work the epa does there. and i will submit a written statement off that mr. chairman i want to take my time to say i would prefer that we be spending this time to look at other issues that are important, that this epa and fda deal with. there are other committee issues that we could be looking at such as the options for which health care costs for constituents and looking at how you do that through patient to driven and consumer -- driven patients entered health care. we should be looking at the medicare trust fund and the pressures that on how that trust fund. the ballooning costs of medicaid. if we move to a public auction. as a move into the health care reform or even from my state the lessons should have been learned from tenor who care which was the test case for hil

mr. walden and the turn arrested may 5th mr. doyle for two minutes. >> thank you for holding this important hearing on going to wait opening statement and look forward to hearing from the witnesses. >> thank you i'm a mr. doyle. we will add two minutes to your question time of the witnesses. the gentleman mr. ensley is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, mr. chaiman and in my state as we speak i've got hundreds of not thousands of constituents designing these new internet broadband services in the next generation is important to a lot of my neighbors to whom i represent. it's important to the country as a whole for job creation possibilities. president obama has recognized broadband infrastructure as a tremendous job potential. but we know we'll have to have additional allocation spectrum for commercial use to really reach fruition of the tremendous promise here. in order to first identify spectrum i want to commend him for his cosponsor of that being done at the first. but once the spectrum is identified and ready for opt

mr. walden, and i, are again sending a request to the speaker. madam speaker, please respond to our request for information regarding your intentions on the stupak-pitts amendment in health care reform negotiations. we continue to insist you keep the exact language of that amendment which passed this house by a wide bipartisan margin in the final version of health care legislation. please do not ignore the voice of the american people or their representatives on this very important issue. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields his time. mr. defazio of oregon. mr. blumenauer of oregon. the gentleman from virginia is recognized for five minutes. >> i'd like to begin by offering the congratulations of myself and many others to senator-elect scott brown of massachusetts who had a very exciting victory yesterday and i know that he will be a good senator for the people of that state, but his victory means so much more to so many more people, not only the people of massachusetts who are very excited today but