ms. dingle: thanks, ted. i want to first of all say how happy i am to be here with pete and ted who have been close friends since the day i walked in here. ted and i -- and i'm very excited to be working with them again. ted and i were co-chairs of the dppcc. and i think it's really important to say that i am a partner with representative lauren underwood, veronica escobar and lori tray hahn as the co-chairs and we're all going to be united and we're going to be a girl team, actually. and for the last year and a half, they've been working tirelessly and done great work along with our former co-chair joe neguses who was -- joe neguse was chair and now assistant leader. we're trying to help our caucus communicate with americans across the country and to demonstrate our caucus is putting people over politics. we've got -- i'm really looking forward to working with them and these guys, you know, the university of michigan won this year, in case you missed it, in football. and this is a highlight today but the hig