matt baucus, thank you. i can only be here because of you.cheers and applause] i live every day trying to honor you. 11 days later i woke up at walter reid so weak i couldn't even move, so weak i couldn't even eat or clean up after myself. but i was alive, alive with a debt that i can never repay. and i wake up every morning now trying to be worthy of my crew, trying to be worthy of their struggle, to be worthy of this miraculous second chance. as we celebrate this amazing and hard earned the tree, let's keep in our sites and are hard those who are celebrating tonight because they've been knocked down by life's unpredictability. there is steel workers and families to granite city. more than 2000 of them got laid off today before last giving them a day last two days before the blast christmas. there were people who kept hearing about an economic history and simply have assaulted in their lives. let's be clear. the economy didn't fail them all of a sudden in 2008. in too many cases it's been decades of decline and frustration by don by unfair t