we are hoping very strongly to get them in front of the first lady pekka we have a letter of the whiteouse right now, so yeah, and i just want to say there is a lot of praise and admiration for michelle in this book. and it is all warrants it. but, along with that praise there is a balance there, because the women-- she draws out of the women all of these experiences, because of the path that she took. they are able to give life to things like aunt lilly. i had a grandmother, clara, that sent mashed potatoes and by mail from virginia to baltimore, so i know that aunt lilly story. and it is all very, very wonderful. this is the history that is never put in history books. in fact, we probably should come up with another word for it, because it is some way that life lives between the covers. it is flesh that has become words, you know. id is motion that has become long enough for someone else to read. so, since it is time for change, perhaps we should think about changing what we call this, you know. but it is definitely a seminal word that needs to be documented a number of different way

one of the things we can do to prevent this rationing is to at least say we are going to do no home pekka were not going to allow this research that is going to be done be used by the federal government to deny our care. mr. president i will ask unanimous consent to put the record, in the record a lankier statement and also the op-ed by, in the "chicago tribune" by dr. massimino, which i quoted from earlier. >> without objection. >> thank you. mr. president i wanted to conclude by mentioning a couple of things. first of all, we have actually seen the danger in using this kind of research for rationing of care in another context. when we created the medicare part d, which provides drugs to seniors, we saw the danger of rationing of drugs and so we specifically provided in the medicare modernization act which provided for the part d drug benefit, an explicit provision that says you can't use cost-effective analysis to allocate the drugs. eight is prohibited there. what we should do is take that same policy and apply it to the rest of our healthcare. to seniors who are on medicare and to the