 It's great to see you. I'm excited to be able to join you today, and I'm proud of the innovative work that you are doing to promote clean, sustainable energy solutions. Coming from the Pacific Northwest, we're proud to be a leader in many of the clean energy solutions. Part of Washington State is one of the cleanest greenest states in the country. When you look at America right now, America is leading the world in those clean technologies, the solutions. And at a time when our economy is booming, I think this is an ideal time for us to be promoting and encouraging even more innovative solutions. We are leading the world in bringing down carving emissions. Let's continue to show the world how this can be done, and in a way that will continue to allow us to grow our economy. In the Pacific Northwest, we have largely been dependent upon hydropower. It has been a source of clean, renewable, reliable, and affordable energy. We have some of the lowest electricity rates in the country, and I'm excited to see my friends from the National Hydropower Association here today. They recently did a study on the potential of hydropower moving forward. For a lot of people, I think they think it is something that we did in the past. But there's huge potential for hydropower moving forward. We could double hydropower in America, which is the largest renewable, without building a new dam, simply by investing in the latest technology and upgrades at the dam. It's only 3% of the dam's produced electricity. So that is exciting. And I think we need to make sure that we're also promoting hydropower. You look at everything from wind to solar to biomass to hydrogen fuel cells, nuclear. There's a lot of solutions. In my district, I'm especially excited right now with solutions around biomass and the cross-laminated timber. So in my district as well as the west coast, we are seeing larger and larger catastrophic wildfires on many of our national forests. And the results of that is that we're emitting a lot of toxic emissions with those forest fires. The cross-laminated timber is a new building material. And I have two plants right now in my district. We're leaving the country in cross-laminated timber, the CLT plants. One just got started in May in Calville, and there's another one in Spokane Valley. As you think about energy solutions, cross-laminated timber is an energy solution. It's a rural job solution. It's a carbon solution. And it's a healthy forest solution. And I really believe that it is part of our future. So I'm especially excited about what these CLT plants mean. The cross-laminated timber is a building material that is as strong, as steel, and cement, but can withstand earthquakes. It's more flexible. It's really part of the building material of the future. So I'm excited about that. It's really great to see all of the ideas that are represented here. It's going to take the combination of all of these innovative ideas to really get us to that clean energy future that we all seek as Americans and also around the world. So thank you for inviting me to be with you. And keep in touch. Let me know how I can be helpful. I'm proud to be on the Energy and Commerce Committee, where we're working on these issues every day. I'm on the Energy Subcommittee and the Environment Subcommittee. So this is an exciting time. So thank you very much. I'm sure we are not a shy group. But thank you very much for being our opening speaker.