this is not an idea that is supported, you know, sherrod brown and roy blunt were the spearheads of it and we have people like roger wicker, the senator from mississippi, the senator from delaware, we've got a good bipartisan group from around country, geographically and across party lines, and this is what we have to do. why is it so important? because what drives new manufacturing jobs is innovation. when i was governor of maine, somebody gave me a cap that said "innovate or die." bill gailts once famously said every product we make today is going to be obsolete in five years. the only question is whether we make it obsolete or someone else does. innovation is the heart of this committee and that's why we have to put together the knowledge factories with the real factories. the knowledge factories, the university, like the university of maine that has the advance composites lab that has created amazing new ways to deal with composites. one of their creations is the bridge in a backpack. it's a composite system which i've seen in action, they're long tubes made of fiberglas. you spread the tubes out, fill them wit