I intend to yield back here, but let me associate myself with the comments of the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Pastor) about commending the staff. He named everyone. I just wanted to, again, associate myself with that and thank him for being such a great partner through all this. It has been difficult, but the product we have is, I think, as good as we could possibly have with our allocation this year. So with that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
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