 Welcome Ray Mosley who's the Director of the Office of the Federal Register and Michael Wash who's the CIO of the Government Printing Office So lots of great innovation that we're seeing Ray or Michael No, no, no, this is my graphic. Yeah, no, I'm not gonna turn it. Oh, okay If I push back Well, I just want to say I can't bring you any news about the production of juice in California But I can bring you news about tart cherries grown in the states of Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin Which was in today's Federal Register I'll put it away now and that was my purpose in doing that No, it's a pleasure to be here. Thank you Carl for having the Federal Register here today, and thanks to John for hosting this and thanks also to Beth who has offered leadership and Unfailing support to us over the past year and a half as we've tried to make progress with delivering The Federal Register in a more user-friendly way July 26 marks the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Federal Register The Federal Register is a landmark achievement in open government transparent government and in the right of the public to participate in the processes of government July 26 marks that 75th anniversary and on that date We intend to roll out Federal Register 2.0 a year ago GPO and the Office of the Federal Register work very diligently with Beth's help and we were able to put our Federal Register data in XML We were immediately overwhelmed and impressed with the work that Harlan was doing at Princeton With the gulfpulse guys were doing what openregs.gov net was doing and and the the broad Reception that we met with putting our data out there in XML It immediately inspired us to look to the day where we could offer a more modern user-friendly visually attractive and Dynamic Edition of the Federal Register and that's it. That's what we intend to roll out on July 26 The 75th anniversary We've been working carefully with the gulfpulse guys who who are our rock stars And we are their groupies because they are helping us visualize dreams that That we've had for years and can now see coming to fruition So we thank them for for all of their effort and what they've shown us over the last eight or nine months Is is truly remarkable and we're really excited about about what they're doing with with with us I think we should take a moment to remember the Circumstances under which the Federal Register was created 75 years ago It was a disgraceful episode in the history of a nation who claim to be a nation of laws The circumstances that led up to the creation of the Federal Register were such that neither the President nor The Federal Agency which regulated a community Nor the community that was regulated knew what the law was and hence There was a lawsuit initiated by the regulated community and in the course of that lawsuit We learned that a nation of laws did not know what the law was Gave rise to the Federal Register a vision of Greswall, Frank Ferdinand Brandeis and Roosevelt and I think for me They were the natural of the 1930s not Robert Redford because their vision was Build it and they will come and surely that is what happened After 75 years, we can now point to a Federal Register that is Downloaded last year over 310 million times We're on course this year to exceed 380 million downloads of Federal Register documents So we're really excited about the future what we know is that most of our current users are repeat users They're folks who are sophisticated and are familiar with the regulatory process and it's essential to them that they keep track of the regulatory Happenings every day. We want to deliver that to all Americans. We want to with pardon from From Carl, I'll pull out my iPhone again We want to put the Federal Register and the code of federal regulations in the pocket of every American Who can carry around or chooses to carry around a smart device? We've already got a vision of that with the open regs guy You can get their app for free at Apple. I encourage you all of All of you to do that because we want to see that 380 million go up to 400 million and 500 million a special thanks to our partners at GPO We've had a 75 year partnership with the government printing office and I think it's probably one of the most amazing partnerships in the annals of government we have to produce this publication every day and Therefore we can't bicker Although we try to we have to work because the pressure of the deadlines Require that we meet our mission and meet our commitment So a thanks to GPO for what they're doing and have done a special thanks to Mike wash For all of his leadership and help over the past 18 months as we move to head Great. Thanks so much Ray