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percentage of children that would be helped would be so miniscule that with the cost, it would be wrong to do that. And therefore the legislation was changed to simply require that there be attention paid to this and that the various regions and hospitals would decide which tests should be given instead of mandating the nine. And the reason I used the mandating of the nine is that New York State does that. And the reason that they do it is that Bill Conklin, who's a very good guy, had a child who was mongoloid, and it got him into that field. And I met him once on some community matter, and we began to talk about it, and I thought it was terrific. He was very proud of that bill, and I thought it was a terrific bill. And I said, “You know, I'm going to try to do that on the federal level.” And so I introduced a comparable bill.

But then what I do with a lot of my legislation that a lot of people don't do is: I send it out to a lot of experts, Sometimes before and sometimes after it's introduced. And I didn't get one favorable letter on this bill, the Conklin bill. So we changed it. It's probably a better bill today.

The marijuana legislation...

Mass transit -- I'm very big on mass transit.

You actually introduced legislation several years ago on mass transit.