Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I just want to thank everybody for coming today. It's important that we all recognize that we are here in a non-partisan effort to look at and get some very real suggestions on how we are going to reduce input costs here.
As to Mr. Easter's partisan comments, it's nice that he's found his voice now that he's on that side of the table.
I also believe that we are over-regulating--