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So I congratulate Dr. Regina Benjamin and thank the President for this important appointment.

Mind you, much of the prevention that will be part of this, and the wellness and the rest in the bill, will not be scored as positive because that's the way the CBO scores, but it will be those savings will be there, and that's why I think at the end of the day we don't -- the revenue that we may take in may be more used for deficit reduction than it will be to cover what the industry did not want to give up as we tried to squeeze out as many savings as possible.

I promised I would answer your question. It was about...

Q: (inaudible). Question about the CIA and former Vice President Cheney.

Speaker Pelosi. The information that you reference is information that was presented in a classified session of the Congress. I did not have that briefing. The Intelligence Committees did. I can't speak to that.

But I think that it behooves the committees to take whatever actions they believe are necessary to get more information on that subject as to whether the intelligence community was directed by the Vice President to create a program and intentionally withhold that information from Congress.

And further, if these same intelligence community were asked, "Is there anything else we should know?" whether they said yes or whether they said no.

Thank you all very much. And, again, let's thank Diane and Joe and Phil and Tammy for being with us today.