Thank you very much to my colleagues for their confidence in electing me to be their chair.
I'd also like to seek the unanimous consent of the committee to continue with this meeting so that we can hear the witnesses who are in front of us today.
Assuming that unanimous consent of the committee is there, I'd ask that the witnesses who are to appear in front of us come to our table and take their positions. It will take a few minutes for them to do that, so we'll suspend for a couple of minutes.
Before we do, though, Mr. Rota, go ahead.