I'll add just that I think it's really important to reiterate what the amendment is here. The purpose of the act is “to prevent the risk of and prepare for future pandemics”, and Dr. Ellis is proposing that we amend this to “to reduce as much as possible the risk of”.
That is the narrow amendment he is proposing here. He's making a lot of comments that I think may be germane to other sections of the bill but not to that particular amendment. I know there's wide latitude, but the latitude is anchored in the actual amendment before us. I think he's going far beyond the latitude that is normally given. I'd ask him to wrap up his comments so that we can vote on this amendment and proceed to the other important concepts he's raising.