Thank you for that briefing, Mr. Sullivan. You are welcome at the committee. We appreciate your showing up today.
Before we go to our first questioner, who will be Mr. Simms, I'd like to bring you up to date. The committee is continuing. You mentioned several times our working on the sealing issue in the past, but we're certainly working on it in the present as well.
It's an issue that's been near and dear to this committee. We've worked hard to reach consensus and to find some new ways of approaching this age-old problem. Certainly when we finish this report on sealing, we'll have some recommendations in it that should be very useful to you in your approach with the Europeans and on this issue in the future.
We'll go to Mr. Simms.