i believe it was probably march of 2014 i met tricket wendler, a young mom with three children who came to washington, d.c. with a group of other individuals advocating for those patients and their families and people suffering from a.l.s., lou gehrig's disease, an incurable and devastating disease. a week before meeting trickett i talked with the goldwater institute who was talking about their right to try legislation, beginning to pass through state legislators. mentioning the fact that i supported right to try brought tears streaming down trickett's face. unfortunately she lost her battle to a.l.s. in march 2015 but she has inspired something that i think is going to give so many thousands, maybe tens of thousands, maybe millions of americans hope when they face a similar type of disease where there's no hope, where there are no further options other than potentially an experimental drug that has been proven safe according to the f.d.a. in our press conference announcing the introduction of this bill, we had matthew bellina, a naval aviator, lieutenant commander, one of the finest am