 This is Maria Christian. Do you have some keys to meet you? Do we have an Anderson? I asked her. Share my identity with you. It's okay. It's okay. Bob Allen's wife. I'll have me do some things to see you. Hi, President. Do you read a few of us? Hello. I'm Bob Fakuda, Mr. President. I'm your hard manager. I work for Secretary of the House. I'm Michael Eng from Hawaii. I'm President. Doug Elmets. We won't stop you. I don't think you were around. We'll stop you. We won't stop you. And you probably haven't seen the show. President John, I'm here for you for today. Thank you. You're the guy. I'm President Tony. I was with the administration. Joe Morgan and I went to Hawaii. We had an administration here in Washington. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. I called it back. I'm going to tell how Hawaii... Mr. President. Oh, of course. We'll wait ahead of you the last time you're ready yet. Let's see if you can tell me about your Italian. I want to introduce you all here. Get your place. Oh, thank you. And an officer in the Italian camp. Oh, precious. You must have some darling stories. He's a family. I don't know how I got to the end of the line. It's nice to meet you. Have you gotten all the way around? Yes. Where's John King? Oh, he didn't come. No, sir. That's a shame. David? Yes, I'll have him. I should have ordered a fine tie or something. No. I saw your story. It was on the biker. In the end, the end. And did you find out that they do it in Ohio? A number of them. You said that. That's making a difference. Thank you. Everything's in silence. You're all right. I'll talk. Thank you. And I might as well... Thank you. I might as well look like Dean Martin while I'm doing it. But, well, it's a great pleasure to welcome you here. And I've just heard the sad news about John's not being able to be here. I thought I was going to be able to congratulate him on his new daughter. But I hope that... And I'm sure we all join together in hoping and praying that everything is all right. But I just want to express appreciation. I know that you've probably heard it from all of us. It was from the National Committee here for all that you've done. And you were helping the party. And the help that you've evidenced simply by coming here. As I said over the other side of the line there, if you'd just stayed there and invited me, I'd have been happy to come there. We will. Except you know that old song from World War I about how I hate to get up in the morning. You know, someday I'm going to murder the bugler. Someday I'm going to find him dead. And then I'll get that other pup, the one that breaks the bugler up. I keep looking for that fellow that tells me what I'm going to be doing every 15 minutes. I just say I'll go to Hawaii as if it'd be the easiest thing in the world. I don't even get to California to see the ranch. But I think we've got a cause. Even though you're far away out there, believe me, you're not forgotten. You're part of the family and we're going to have candidates needing your help and support. And again, I just thank you for doing what you're doing. Talk to your neighbors and get them to do it too. We've been negotiating back here and working very hard with regard to the projected deficits and the cuts in spending that are going to be needed. And some other things to make it work. And so far we're, I hate to say, meeting with resistance. Because my hope was that we'd be able to come before the people in this election year of standing together with the leadership on the other side and saying that together we're willing to compromise with each other and to make it work and to do things that are necessary if we're going to carry forward. Now, I don't say that that's gone by the boards. We're still at it trying to get that. If not, then we're going to have to go before the people ourselves and tell the people this is what has to be done and ask the people to let their congressman know that they'd like to have that done. It's absolutely essential if we're going to have recovery. Nick Richards told me a little while ago, a few days ago, about a banker out in Indiana, a small town there, that took a couple of million dollars of the bank's money, put it up at interest rates four percent lower than the going rate for loans for new cars to help the car dealers in the area. And the rush was almost instant. And now I found out that a whole bunch of bankers over in Ohio have done the same thing. And where the average sale had been about 344 cars a month that jumped to 2,200 from there doing that. And just recently I've been looking at the real estate ads in here in the area in Virginia and Delaware and around here. And that's the other great industry that's got to be revived if we're going to come out of this recession. And you'd be surprised at how many housing developments and so forth, the builders, the owners of those are now offering their own financing at lower than the normal mortgage rates. One percent down and the lower mortgage rates to get people in. You've heard, of course, about inflation and what happened when they gave the figures for February to March. The first time in 17 years that it actually went down didn't just lower the inflation rate and keep on going up but not as fast but went down. I don't say that's going to happen every month. But the fact that for six months now the inflation rate has been a 3.2 percent. Average that on an annualized basis. When we started it was 12.4. I think that we're on the right track. And we're going to stay with it. So we need all your help. And I'm going to quit talking now or this drink will get cold. Nancy would have been here against the damage. Speak to you. Also, I bid you welcome but Nancy is in California by now. I don't think she's raining out there. It's not raining out there. It was this morning. Oh, yes. Yes. Why don't we get a few in the natural picture and swap and have an account of what happens in the trade. And I've seen you while you're still healthy. I keep trying to tell everybody here to go home that their family's the ends of the day. And I still know they. That's what I'm going to discuss for the better. I use the excuse to see that you'll go home more if I go home first. So I go home first. It doesn't work. That is just to have an addition to his family as well. So these directories last week. Well, yes, of course. I was told about that. That's right. Congratulations. Thank you. It's always a pleasure. Thank you. That's it. Sure. Mr. President, how are you? Just fine. It's an honor to meet you. Will, it's nice to see you. Ted Cannon. How are you? I'm good. Herky. Herky Harris. President, good to see you, sir. Thank you. And the legislative director, Mike Schumer. Hi. I just want to ask you to come on in here. I don't want you to go up to one of the chairs. Yes, general, there. That should do well. Mr. President, we appreciate you taking the time to your business gentlemen. It's worth to get done with the budget. I'm going to tell you how much I appreciate the support and the help that you've been giving us on our programs. And I just hope and trust because I think we're going to have the same kind of a fight all over again. Get ready to go into the trenches on this budget. We are. We're just a marching order. Okay. I think we're coming to that point very, very soon now. Well, as you know, as you see, there's a construction trade association made up of about 16,000 to 17,000 small, medium, large cities. Generally, by and large, it's not the country. Well, I guess like that and probably a member is building a help house for me on the ranch right now. Ted is a former national president of our association. He's a large contractor in Alabama and I'm a small electrical contractor in Southern California. Wow. Native and constituent in two offices now. We have supported you as early as 1976. You've spoken at our 75 convention. Our members are behind you 100% for behind you programs. We hope we get the interest stretch down because it's hurting our business. But we're not after anything. Any help we don't want to end up swirling. We've a little while longer since they're with Inflation. I really, I'm optimistic about the interest. Because I think the only thing that can be holding them up is the feeling in the money market that burns so often that Inflation won't stay where it is that somebody will do something and that the Congress will act like they've done before with the artificial gimmicks and up will go the inflation. It's just not very happy. We're not going to let it. And I think, I think when as quickly as we can, when we can get this, whether in locations we've been in for so many weeks here trying to get a bipartisan approach.