further, today we have a new commerce minister who is from the ruling party and also close to sonya gandhi and the leadership. by contrast, when prime minister would return to power in 1999, he was unable to move forward at all on trade, due to the position of the then commerce minister, who was from a different party, very crucial to the coalition government. so the situation is very different today. second, it is significant, particularly for potential progress on trade that there appeared to be no real backlash in the polls against congress for its engagement and embrace of its relationship with the u.s. this suggests that the government of india may be less hesitant and less fearful of political vulnerability, if they should stand shoulder to shoulder with the u.s. on trade initiative. as some in the audience know, there is a long history of indian officials from bjp led an congress led government who got great political mileage about opposing u.s. trade policy and positions here so hopefully this vote will really help to some extent to provide courage to the trade officials. third, is