cared for critically ill children for 14 years. he don't bring the that hands on patient centered perspective to his work as assistant secretary of health where his primary goal is leading americans to live healthier lives. without further ado please join me welcoming my friend and constituent, admiral brett gerard. >> thank you very much, congressman flores and it's really a privilege and an honor to be back here. i waited about four years to start a speech this way. so i'll do it. howdy. love to hear that. i want to congratulate everyone for the tremendous work. i was able to read a pre-publication copy of the white paper and i think it's absolutely a critical piece of work that will serve as a guide post both nationally and internationally and i've geared a lot of my remarks based on that. looking back, i've been beating on this rob for about 25 years. in 1993 as an assistant professor my first grand round was titled it's a national security issue. and i think it still continues to be that way 25 years later. i'm certainly not the main person at hhs. bode cadillac clearly is the person championing these efforts. if he's batman i try be a good robin on