christa schaefer and i welcome you to the fifth annual bradley symposium, entitled "making conservatism credible again." a special welcome to our nationwide c-span audience. as are many groups represented this morning, the bradley center is a proud grantee of the blind and harry bradley foundation located in milwaukee. we are pleased to have some board members and spouses and staff with us. and my particular thanks to the bradley vice-president for this critical assistance in devising and executing this symposium. this symposium. a very young republican hill staffer named paul ryan stopped by the lion house to find out more about our civic renewal efforts in milwaukee and to announce he was going to run for the united states house of representatives in the first congressional district down lake michigan shoreline from milwaukee. that was a noble but hopeless dream of course because the notoriously volatile first district had just fallen into democratic hands and looked tuesday that way for the foreseeable future. congressmen ryan is serving his sixth term from the first district and has