next to him is tom jenson who is the vice president for transportation policy at u.p.s. in the business of centering things around, that puts him in the middle of a whole variety of transportation issues. in his prior career, he also worked on the hill for former representative stuart mckinney of connecticut. next to him, we have ron kirby. represents 18 washington area local governments and it is the planning organization for the washington region. he says his customers are people of the american metropolitan region. and any one of you who tried to drive in today will probably attest to that. last, we have john, the president of the small business legislative council which he has been doing since 1985 and has advocated on a variety of small business-related issues for most of his career. he has worked for other small business trade associations. so let's get right down to it. the thing that i would say at the outset is that we are in a brave new world in congress. some might even call it a discontent new world. the public certainly is having a little bit of difficulty w