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--applause--
I usually don't feel taller. It's a very interesting set up.
I'm delighted to have a chance to be here at HRSA. I've spent some
time with your senior leadership team and heard about some of the priorities of this very important division
and had a chance to meet with some folks. But I particularly wanted to come here and say thank you.
The amount of effort going on throughout this department on the Recovery Act is extraordinary.
I have to tell you at every point along the way, you're at the front of the line. Our first grant out the door
for the whole Recovery Act came from HRSA. Now we're at the point of 60% of the dollars,
so you're one of the Vice President Joe Biden's favorite divisions in the whole world because
those are numbers that he loves to talk about. The newly announced, not yet confirmed, but announced
Surgeon General candidate is a graduate of the National Health Service. We're going to have a great new champion
for reaching further into underserved communities and the importance of that work.
But I really wanted to thank this extraordinary team. The work you do not only resonates in this division,
and our Department, but really touches people across this country.
It's an infrastructure of a variety of kinds that is going to make us a better nation,
and you have a great role to play in that.
And I just wanted to say, thank you so much for the work you are doing.
--applause--