alphonso lub rano, president of technical materials and vice president of national association of manufacturers, small and medium manufacturers. craig giffi, vice chairman and u.s. leader of consumer industrial products at deloitte. and dr. tyndall from the north carolina biotechnology center. good afternoon. thank you all for being here with us today in front of our subcommittee. you'll each be recognized for five minutes. to keep track of time, please watch the timers in front of you. when it turns yellow, you have a minute to wrap up and make sure to turn your microphone on and bring it comes to your mouth. the audience at home needs to hear you and only can if you're speaking clearly into the microphones. dr. atkinson, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you madam chairman. members of the committee. it's a pleasure to be here. itif has been doing a fair amount of research on what's happened to the u.s. manufacturing economy and we'll be releasing a report shortly on what we need to do to fix it. as we've shown in our work, we lost a larger share of our manufacturing jobs in the la