Thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank everybody again for their cooperation and diligence in dealing with this bill. I think it's been a reasonably simple bill to deal with, since this committee basically drafted it. As of the deadline set yesterday, we had received 33 amendments that have been organized into packages, clause by clause, in front of you.
I would like to point out that there was lengthy discussion on one of the amendments, but ultimately I'm ruling all them in order. So we will proceed clause-by-clause in the usual fashion.
(On clause 1)