Thank you very much.
I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome everybody back. I hope you had a very productive and enjoyable summer and that you look forward to getting back to work here again. I'd like to also take this opportunity to welcome our new clerk here today and thank him very much. I've assured him that our committee is a very good committee to work with, and he tells me he looks forward to it very much. So thank you very much.
Now, if it's the committee's wish, I'd like to proceed with--