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“Thank you very much, Mr. Tonko. I know Mr. Guthrie may have some additional remarks. We have got about 7 minutes. I am going to take maybe 3 minutes and talk about some of the legislation that is here. I am going to go through this very quickly. Mr. Markey, who is now a senator, introduced H.R. 1507 when he was here in the House. This deals with the Social Security and Medicare diagnosis. Of course, we have the Accountability Act you have introduced, Mr. Guthrie. There is H.R. 489, the Global Alzheimer's Resolution. Next month is Global Alzheimer's Month. This will be part of that effort to talk about this issue around the world. We have H.R. 4543, the PACE Pilot Act, to keep elderly people in their homes, which was introduced by Chris Smith, who will join us the next time we come out on this issue. And also, H.R. 2975, the Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Act, was introduced by Representative Maxine Waters and, again, deals with the kind of support that you and Mr. Guthrie were talking about. One more. We have H.R. 2976, the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert Program, dealing with the issue both of you have talked about with elderly or people with Alzheimer's that wander off. All of these are bipartisan pieces of legislation. All of them in one way or another deal with this problem. The one thing that is not among these is specific money for research, which I would hope comes from our efforts to talk about this and make this a major issue. Mr.…”