the international league finance corporation, jetblue, the national business aviation association, northstar group, pratt and whitney, rockwell collins, rolls-royce, southwest and airtran, spirit airlines, united airlines, u.s. airways, and westjet. thank you, thank you. and now please welcome the president and ceo of the u.s. chamber of commerce, mr. tom donohue, for this morning's keynote discussion with boeing's chairman jim mcnerney. >> thank you very much, carol. [applause] good morning ladies and gentlemen. jim and i would add our thanks to everyone that is joining us today, that will speak today, and particularly those who were kind enough to sponsor our activities. we are particularly pleased to have jim with us today. as you know, he is one of these fellows in town that doesn't need an introduction. he has degrees from harvard in jail, and he played baseball with george bush. he has a storied career. -- harvard and yale. he went to ge and was a body with jack welsh. he became chairman and ceo at 3m. in 2005 he took over boeing. users on the president council, all kinds of organizati