effort, raj shah will cochair, anne-marie slaughter will serve as executive director, and karen hanrahancontinue bolus chief operating officer. now, i cannot promise you that next year or i guess this year will be easy. but i can promise you that you will be working on important matters that really do affect the future of our country in the world. now wherever i go, i see results. i see life saved, conflicts averted, partnership strengths and in the united states acting as a force for progress. i'm very proud to be a member of the steam and it is a tremendous privilege to work with you on behalf of the american people. so i am looking forward to an exciting year ahead and i am very confident that we will continue to make progress together. right now i'm looking forward to your questions, so i'll hand things back over to pat to help underwrite this discussion, but can you not call for everything you've done and everything you will do. not that >> we have two microphones set up, one on each side of there any question. this has never been a shy group. [inaudible] on behalf of afsa and the f