my particular things this morning to the bread the vice- president dan schmidt for his critical assistance and advising in directing this symposium. a very young republican hill staffer named paul ryan stopped by the lion house to find out more about our civic renewal efforts in milwaukee and to announce he was going to run for the united states house of representatives in the first congressional district down lake michigan shoreline from milwaukee. that was a noble but hopeless dream of course because the notoriously volatile first district had just fallen into democratic hands and looked tuesday that way for the foreseeable future. congressmen ryan is serving his sixth term from the first district and has emerged as a major national spokesman for market-oriented alternatives to the administration costs government focus proposals. he must be on his way shortly to a meeting of the house budget committee where he is the ranking minority member. before we introduce the rest of our program, we are pleased to welcome congressman paul ryan. [applause] >> thank you, bill. i believe i am the firs