And essential services that are performed. You talked about water and sewer opportunities, the construction projects that we require. It's about human infrastructure, capital infrastructure, physical infrastructure. If we feed that with soundness of investment--not just spending and throwing money at something, but with an accountable plan, one with a vision, one with goals, one that embraces a soundness of future--we are ahead of the race of anyone else out there. We can maintain the soundness of leadership in this global economy if we believe in ourselves, if we believe in the American Dream, if we invest. We've been joined by Representative John Garamendi from the great State of California. He kicked us off. The hour came into my hands, and now you're back to revisit. So we thank you Representative Garamendi, again, for serving as inspiration to really get the thought process moving and verbalize where we are as a powerful conference in this House and where I think we've attached to the great thinking out there, the overwhelming thinking of Americans.
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