Mr. Speaker, I want to commend the gentleman from Connecticut for mentioning Pope Francis and not mentioning ladies basketball. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Roe), the chair of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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