colleagues. and similarly, when marjorie taylor greene was spouting her conspiratorial qanon and anti-semitic stuff. so, you know, it -- i think the precedent has been broken here, it's been broken by mccarthy. it doesn't surprise me, though, that he is being led, already, by these extreme elements and -- and it's one of the reasons why he could never be allowed to become speaker. more importantly, though, if i can say, erin, then whatever he might do, vis-a-vis democrats and committee assignments is the fact that he will do whatever donald trump wants him to do and if donald trump wants him to overturn the next election because trump loses again, mccarthy will do it and that is a real and present threat to our democracy. >> before we go, chairman, i need to ask you one more question. and this is something you are behind, which is a push for the biden administration to expand access to rapid covid testing. and you know, they -- they have said announced plans to purchase 500 million tests. um, obviously, we can all do the