paul urassi is the president of hnt tv culls companies. paul, thank you to your dedication to modernizing our roads, railways, rivers, runways, and waterpipes, and your ability to put the chamber and the council together for that all important first meeting . for that, we are here today. paul, please accept my thanks and the steering committee's gratitude for h.n.t.'s generous sponsorship of the week. please join me in welcoming paul urassi. 6 [applause] >> i have the honor today of introducing the first keynote speaker, donahue. a number of years ago the hntb to s courting join. we had a number of visits and were deciding what we were going to do. finally, i don't know who it was, said why don't you go visit tom. so after 4545 minutes with tom donahue i saw exactly wr to be s great for hntb part of the chamber of commerce. i saw everything that fit what h.n.t. needed. more than that, i saw a man with a vision for what america could be, the passion to get it done, and backed by an organization that was working to implement his ideas. since