Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome. I think we all appreciate very much all that you have done. We know it's a real struggle there to try to coordinate it all, and we appreciate very much what the Red Cross has done.
I know that many of the members here are going to drill down to try to get particular information. I wonder if I could start with some broad strokes first.
Regarding the Haiti interim commission, I was there in New York when Bill Clinton was there and talking about how it is to be coordinated. I realize there have been some difficulties internationally around that. Sometimes it was around timing, around reports that were supposed to be coming. I would like to get from you your assessment of how that was handled. I know there have been other relief and emergency situations around the world that have been difficult. Here was one in which we took a former president and made an interim commission, to try to coordinate all of this along with the government report from Haiti itself that was supposed to be coming out. I've heard so many mixed signals on that as to whether that was actually a good idea or not, and I wonder if we could get at least some of the lessons learned from the Red Cross in that process.