Good afternoon, everybody.
Sorry for the delay. We had a vote in the House as well as a lovely ceremony for the outgoing clerk. If you didn't see it, take a look. It was a really inspirational moment. I thought she was going to break down. Some of us in the cheap seats were holding back some tears as well.
I want to welcome everybody here. I know we were really popular on Monday. I did not expect to be as popular today, so I do apologize for the lack of chairs for those of you in the back. But we welcome large crowds and I understand that many of you here are giant wealths of knowledge that we hopefully will be able to tap into today. Thank you for being here.
Just a couple of points of order and some housekeeping. We are going to carve out about 15 minutes at the end of this meeting to do some committee business. We have some things that have lingered that we want to take care in a timely fashion.
Because I embarrassed him in the House, I'll do so again today. A giant happy birthday to Mr. Wayne Long, who is 63 today, right?