Thank you, Madam Chair.
Let me just be clear at the beginning that we wrestle here in this committee with the issue of economic security for women. It's meant a lot to us that you've come here today. We greatly respect the people who do come here and inform us, and their professionalism, because we can't be everywhere.
I feel a little embarrassed too about what's happened today, but I appreciate very much that you have come and the position—