mr. vinton cerf, vice president and chief internet evangelist for google. we all admire that title, and your work, mr. cerf, certainly, that to have internet and addresses all those things you created or helped create and love to talk internet evangelist. again, we thank our prior panel, and their testimony, and we will start right in with ambassador gross, our leadoff witness on the second panel, and, again, just pull those microphones close. make sure the lights are lit, and you should be good to go. thank you, ambassador, for your work on this issue in the past, and we look forward to your comments today. >> well, thank very much, mr. chairman. ranking member. it's a great privilege and honor to be back here with you all again. i appreciate it very much, and i probably should start with an apology to the audience that i did not bring lunch with us. so i'll try to be brief. i want to underscore a couple points made both by the questions and the answers presented by the first panel. first of all, i think it's extraordinarily important for the american peopl