You know, it took me thirteen and a half years to get this passed. I imagine that we would be able to pass further legislation, but with this Congress, we don't know. I hope that the promise of genomics will not be stymied by what we dealt with trying to pass GINA. There were a number of people who had thought we were talking about cloning-but when the time came for the vote, they all voted for it, which was really astonishing after what we'd been through. As you know, the Senate passed our bill unanimously twice, which I think was because Senator Frist was a physician. Over here [in the House of Representatives], we had committee chairs who bottled it up at some group's request.
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