Connie Morella: “The Chair thanks the gentleman from Idaho. The President continues to have control of the time.”

Thank you, Larry, for your leadership and your active involvement in this new and very great program.

We are very honored that our minority leader chose to join us again to greet us as well as the Speaker of the House and Steny Hoyer. So let's continue on with our program. We were talking about programs that focus on Europe and Asia and…

Thank you, Jim. All the programs that we have described of course require both leadership and staff to implement, and I want to say openly and very enthusiastically our association is blessed to have top people in both categories. I want…

Thank you. I am now going to yield time to my colleague from Maryland, Beverly Byron, to report on some of the other activities of the association.