didn't last that long and those of you who were rarned at the -- around at the beginning know there was plenty of doubt as to whether it would. that was pretty important to a struggling capitol hill staffer with two young daughters and a big mortgage and something i will never forget. thank you, chuck robb. [applause] from the very beginning, will marshall has provided much of the intellectual capital of the new democrat movement. many of the ideas that define new democrats today are grounded in the work that will has done as policy director of the d.l.c. and president of the progressive policy institute. thank you, will marshall. to the chairs of the d.l.c., gickgep -- dick gephardt, chuck, sam nunn, president clinton, johnny bro, evan bayh tom vilsack and evan ford jr. thank you for all you've done. for those of you still around here, thank you for your perseverance. i appreciate it very much. so many people and so many of you have supported the d.l.c. and the p.p.i. over the years and believe me, i appreciate it very much. i appreciate every hard-earned dollar you gave us and i thank

it includes senator dodd's clarification regarding evidence informed information rarned evidence behaved information. as i understand, senator dodd, that comes from the national academy of pediatrics? >> that's correct. >> we also included senator hatch's clarify amendment to include chiropractors as part of the community health teams, which is more than agreeable to us. it adds the standard of i.o.m. to define what is primary care and it provides authorization for such sums as may be necessary to carry out this title. so that's a brief description of the amendment. and i ask unanimous consent that both mikulski and dodd be accepted? >> is there objection? >> by unanimous consent they're agreed to. >> so those amendments are agreed to? >> yes, they are. >> now, i understand that the first amendment, senator jack reed -- >> let me apologize. we need 12 members to adopt amendments. we need eight for discussion. we have to wait until a couple more show up to actually vote on those. >> so lay the votes aside? >> yes. >> we can't do a unanimous consent unless we have eight here? >> we need 12