 The speaker will want an appearance. Contrary to appearances, this isn't a sentimental reunion of old political sparring partners. What this gathering does represent is a solid cross-section of leaders and outstanding members of the Congress. Now, perhaps you've been informed, I don't know, that there would have been some leaders and leading members in the leadership of the Senate here, but I understand that they're in the middle of a vote and therefore they're missing this occasion. They're united by something much bigger than political labels. We're all Americans. We all want to get the American economy moving. We all realize that to achieve this, we must cut federal deficits to bring down interest rates and create jobs. Together, we've been reviewing the situation and speaking for myself. I've come out of the meetings as an optimist. Over the last 24 hours, we've seen impressive evidence that the American economy is looking up. Yesterday's historic rally of the stock market and several leading economic indicators all point toward economic recovery and a growing number of banks are lowering their prime interest rates. We have to keep this momentum for prosperity going by passing the bipartisan legislation before the Congress to lower deficits when Democrats join together now to achieve this goal. Interest rates will keep on coming down and we'll get to the point where there will be jobs for all Americans who want to work. Freedom is gone. It's become such a destabilizing factor that many people including myself don't believe there's really a long term anymore because the government is so unpredictable except in its spending habits. And that's, of course, one of the reasons that I'm here today on behalf of all former secretaries of the Treasury. I guess you'll get a printed statement except John Connolly who was not reachable. And I'm sure John would have supported this as well to support the tax legislation that the President has been talking to you all about. We've all analyzed this legislation in light of the current economic situation concluded that it has to be enacted. The budget is not only out of control, it's hemorrhaging. And it has a great many inflationary and financial consequences, budget policy. So that is what we are here for to talk about the tax bill, about bringing a balance between our fiscal and monetary policies and urging the Congress to move further because the ultimate solution to our budget problems has to be controlling spending and shrinking the size of government. And that's it, period. And that's why I'm so pleased to be here in support of this and I'd be delighted to answer any questions you'd like to ask. I think the market would be disappointed if indeed the bill was defeated because the financial market's view of the deficits as they look out has just so incredibly huge that they have to be curved. Well, I can answer both questions at the same time. Yes, I did, obviously.