we are happy to have you here today, and we'll start with congressman ray burke. >> thank you for the invitation to testify here today. i want to thank the members of the class act working group, especially chairman stearns, chairman pitts, and i see mr. upton is not here, probably has something else on his mind at this time. senator thune's leadership is also extrough ordinary. this -- extraordinary. if you think about the work, it's unfolded like an episode of "law and order," and those shows begin with a mystery. in 2010, the american public was handed a mystery when president obama signed into law the affordable care act weighing in more than 2500 pages calling for thousands of pages of more regulatory rule making, even the bill's authors did not read it. we'll told we have to pass the bill before we could find out what's in it. that's what the working group was all about. we followed clues, questioned witnesses, and used authority of the congress to track paper trails. as the chairman of the house of appropriations committee that oversees the department of health and human servic