mr. matheson: thank you, madam chair. i want to thank foreign affairs, rules, judiciary and administration committees for working with me. my amendment ensures that americans living overseas, all of whom who are required to pay taxes to the u.s. government are counted in u.s. census and get to vote in u.s. elections. this amendment structs the secretary of state in consultation with the director of the census bureau and attorney general to develop passports to determine how they can fully participate in future crens uses and the elections. in utah, it narrowly missed getting a fourth congressional seat because missionaries living overseas were not counted. my amendment seeks to correct this practice to ensure that all americans living overseas will be counted and get to vote in u.s. future elections. this amendment is straightforward in establishing the study dwri to examine this issue and i encourage my colleagues to support it. and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. does any membe

thank you for your indulgence, mr. chairman. >> mr. boyer? >> i had to take a deep breath because mr. matheson and i and i guess now chairman dingell and gene green -- you know, we've taken this -- trying to educate the committee here on electronic pedigree with regard to drugs, yet, now all of a sudden there's this great interest to do something expansive on pedigree with food. so i just want you to stop and ponder and think about this, mr. chairman, because as we move to the drug safety bill you can't say you have this level of interest to go after tainted foods but with regard to drugs, that's different. we're not going to send this message to the country that tainted food, bad lettuce, that's really awful. but we can have a different standard whether it comes to bad lipitor. i just -- i'm uncomfortable. let me ask some questions because i don't think i completely understand. when i look at section 106 and section 107, we have sort of an all-in and under traceability we have some exemptions. so i'm -- you know, i come from a very small tow