 The news we are about to share with you is about cancer, an intruder that is very personal to all of us. It impacts our families and friends in greater numbers here in New Jersey, where we also face a higher cancer death rate than the national average. Today, we are proud to announce that Memorial Sloan Kettering and Hackensack Meridian Health are creating an extraordinary strategic partnership to change the course of cancer. This new partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center takes us to a new level that is simply unparalleled. We will be better serving all of our patients throughout an extended area in New York and New Jersey, and we will help eradicate cancer. We look forward to opening a number of really important cancer discoveries as well as new cancer therapies that we can introduce to patients here. First in New Jersey, but ultimately to set a model for the rest of the world with this collaboration. Our existing cancer centers will not only bear each other's name, but they will operate with a single standard of care. There are more award-winning doctors in the two institutions dedicated to cancer than probably anywhere, and you can find the two. Collectively, the strengths of the two systems that we have is absolutely amazing. Together, our mission will be based on two core principles, improving and speeding up the progress in discovery in cancer while at the same time developing value-based care. What's the quickest way to get to the moon? You put the two most powerful and smartest rockets together and you launch. Today is blast-off. This is probably in my 25 years in the United States Congress, and in the last 12 years in the United States Senate, the singular most important moment in healthcare in our state. It is an extraordinary moment. There's no doubt in my mind that this partnership will be a game-changer for cancer patients in New Jersey, New York, and all over the place. We are at a big deal here. This is an historic moment, and I'm so honored and proud to be part of it. We will build new sites together as true partners to bring world-class care to new communities throughout our region and ultimately across the nation.