commerce committee, will be followed up with another hearing on october 30th. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius before the ways and means committee and an additional hearing before oversight committees. if questioning obama care into oblivion isn't enough to make it go away, maybe they can borrow acme invisible paint from the coyote. joining me "usa today" columnist raul reyes and julian, professor of history and public affairs at princeton and author of "governing america," which must be a novel, fiction. a primary care doctor at johns hopkins medicine and a fellow at brookings institute. and igor, managing editor of thinkprogress.org. let me start. if we were more charitable than i was in my wile e. coyote metaphor, is there something that these hearings can in fact accomplish? >> i think these hearings can allow for people to get some of