you said yes and thank you very much to our great deputy chairman greg waldman, we did it together.hen i announced that our mission statement at the nrcc would be to retire nancy pelosi -- [cheers and applause] many people thought that would never, ever happened. we believe it. we traveled the country. wheat sold the fight. we talked about how the american people, if they would get behind the republican party and our ideas, that we could win back the majority. tonight, the american people have spoken [cheers and applause] this election has been a referendum on the federal government that talks too much, on a federal government that does not listen enough, that spends too much, and it does not save enough. and a federal government that takes too much and does not accomplished enough. [cheers and applause] it is real simple -- to have a regime change you have to involve every single team member and that is what we did. at the nrcc, we ask every single member and our great candidates if they would believe in a dream. we know we believe in three things that we sold well. first of all, w