 Hello, shipmates. I'd like to update you on some events that have taken place here in Washington, D.C. Now, remember, I want you to focus on war fighting first, operating forward, and being ready. But I need to update you on the budget. There's some good news this week. We had the President sign his the Continuing Resolution Extension. Now that gives the federal government funding for the remainder of this fiscal year. And it also provides the Department of Defense a spending bill for the remainder of this fiscal year. That's good news. In January, whenever negotiations failed up there in the Congress to reconcile our Budget Control Act, we were faced with a $9 billion shortfall on a $49 billion need. So you do the simple math there. We had a 20% reduction in what we were going to need for our operations. So money was going to be tight, and we all felt that ratcheting down of spending over the last couple of months. Now, because we have a spending bill, that shortfall, that $9 billion shortfall has been cut in half. So we still have a little bit of a shortfall in operations and also in our investments accounts due to sequestration. But we're in much better shape.