. -- i am joe biden, jill biden's husband. i was on the phone with you all so often during the recovery act. i know none of you liked the recovery act much. [laughter] but i want to start off by fore governor's the way in which you implemented it. there were a total of 250,000 of ford's. we had a check that needed to be cut to 250,000 different entities. there were a group of ig's and examiners of pointed out fraud or less.1 there will be continued relationships between befuddled and state and local government. we plan on trying to use that as a template as to how to move forward so we save taxpayers money. the recovery is under way, although i am sure a lot of you having to cut your budgets do not feel it. it is a very difficult time for you all. i just want you to know that i think we can all agree on the the major initiatives we know we have to do something about the long-term debt. we know we have to do something about preparing ourselves to compete in the future in terms of education, innovation, and infrastructure, but i