 Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Capitol. It's great to be here doing such important work. So prior to it, it was exciting for me to come into the room because I can feel the energy, not only energy based on people, and that's kind of a pun, I suppose. Not only the energy derived from the fact that there are people here who are really committed to the mission of making our world more sustainable, but also the energy you feel when you're around entrepreneurs. There's definitely a lot of entrepreneurs in this room. I spent my whole career in the private sector prior to running for Congress. This is only the beginning of my third year in Congress. I started two companies in the private sector. I took a public on the New York Stock Exchange and I ran these public companies. I'm the only former CEO of a company serving in Congress. So I love being around entrepreneurs because it's what I spend most of my time dealing with in my career. And I think it's the exact right perspective for the challenge that everyone in this room is so concerned about. Because I'm sure everyone will agree that the threat of climate change is an existential threat to American prosperity and for global stability. It is a singular risk in our world. The nice thing about tackling this challenge in the United States is there's no country in better positions to actually overcome this challenge and lead in the world against it. In the United States, because we have a free market system and I'm a huge believer in the free market system and if we actually get the incentives right in the markets to encourage behavior that gets carbon out of our lives, the free market will take care of us. There's no legislation here in the Congress to put a carbon tax in place. And I have the lead legislation in the Congress around carbon tax. And I think what I've brought to bear is there's been a lot of discussion about carbon tax across the country. But we've got a carbon tax that prices carbon at the appropriate levels. Takes the revenues generated from the carbon tax and mitigates some of the negativity to low-income Americans, mitigates the negativity to coal workers. Takes on top of that all the additional revenues and use it to reduce taxes on growing businesses. They're great, great jobs. So this bill is a real double bottom line in that it unleashes the free markets through the right pricing incentives to take on carbon and eliminate it. Because with the right incentives, the free market will absolutely do it. It'll do it with new means of energy production. It'll do it for new means of energy distribution. And it'll do it for new means of energy utilization, something you all know a lot about because you've got all kinds of businesses that are doing it, that are innovating. Can you imagine the innovation that would occur if we actually had the right incentives in place? Because right now, carbon-intensive fuels are massively subsidized. They're subsidized because we're not putting the social cost of carbon on them. And quite rightly, we're not putting the military cost of carbon on them. If we actually price carbon-intensive fuels correctly, all of the kind of energy sources that you're around in producing and distributing and up-saving would be much more competitive and would dominate and take over the market. And the United States is the best country in the world to do that because of our free markets. And if we do it, the competitive advantage associated with the United States leading in the advanced energy economy will not only lead to kind of unparalleled economic kind of renaissance that I have been in this country, but will also show leadership in the world. But it's going to take big thinkers, creative thinkers, and entrepreneurs to make that happen. There's a carbon tax that's ultimately the right answer to it. It's a free market solution. It's a solution that conservatives should embrace. And if the revenues you use appropriately, like I propose to reduce taxes on profits, as I say to my Republican friends, why not tax pollution instead of taxing profits? Isn't that a better trade? So God bless you and thank you for doing it. Good luck with everything.