 It's really not just an honor, but also a pleasure to have our administrator of the SBA. He's a man here in town, he today, as we're walking out here I was kind of geeking out and telling her all my wonderful stories of growing up as a fan of her family's business. In watching this business grow from a small regional operation to a global concern of I'd say a marketing and business phenomenon that is entertained and helped in many ways. I think shaped the trajectory of American politics in some way. I was in the garden the night with Hulk Hogan beat the iron sheet. It was a gift from our big brother to me and it began to help shape even my mentality as this would have meant to be a proud American, a proud American to take years of great business experience and then to sacrifice to serve your country and this is sacrifice I know. And helping build good strong businesses all across this country with the half of the SBA and the support of the president, the support of Congress, so happy to have Congressman Wilson here. It's wonderful to have her here, this beautiful weather in Columbia South Carolina. It's like this every day in the city of Michigan. Tell that the business everywhere you go and encourage them to come and look at putting some capital here on the ground. We believe firmly that you create a good strong business environment where private sector capital, when you get hit the ground, you treat it well, it'll grow. And we've endeavored to create that type of environment here with our fantastic partners throughout the region, Lexington County, Richland County, all of our small businesses and public sector partners here, it's growing well. So having you here during Small Business Week is a big deal and we want to thank you for being here. I want to welcome you here with hopefully many happy returns as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, indeed, it's a privilege to be here in beautiful South Carolina. And we actually began this sort of road show, if you will, this week. It started in Washington kicking off National Small Business Week. We had two days of great events, recognizing our small business person of the year. And every state winner for the first two days in Washington, then we went on the road. And I flew to Jacksonville, Florida on Monday evening. And then Tuesdays, we started the bus. And I've said what happens on the bus stays on the bus. So we don't have to really talking about that. Then we came up to Savannah, Georgia, and I was visiting small businesses there. We moved on today now to Columbia, South Carolina. We actually got here last night. So today we went out and visited with our draper company owned by the chays. Just a wonderful, wonderful folks. And they really, they were the Phoenix Award winners. The National Small Business Phoenix Award winners because they literally came back from the terrific flood and rebuilt their business with a lot of help from SBA, a lot of help with the local community, their church groups, just neighbors helping neighbors. And so it's wonderful to hear those stories. So here we are today at the Convention Center for the 15th Annual Salute to Small Businesses. And I'm really happy to be here to give the luncheon address and to set the stage for the winners who have received their awards a little bit later this afternoon. So I'm really appreciative of being here, Congressman, the mayor, and all of our winners of our Small Business Awards. So it's a great honor and privilege for me to serve in the President's Cabinet and to be part of helping to make sure that small businesses get the support they need because they are the backbone of our economy, 30 million strong across our country. And I want to be the best advocate for them that I can be. I'd just like to join in and welcome the administrator, one of America's leading business women, a proponent as we see of small business which gives opportunity and jobs. And so we're thrilled what recognition, additionally, it's an extraordinary time to be here with Mayor C. Benjamin Soon to be the President of the National Conference of Mayors of the United States. And so we have two world leaders here today, particularly it's so exciting indeed, I always point out about the weather. The meteorological weather is warm, the people are warm in the midlands of South Carolina.