Grothman, Glenn: We have a committee here which is part of the education and labor committee normally we have committees in Washington but on some occasions we'd like to get out away from Washington and find out what's going on in the real world and today we're going to have a hearing looking at 14 C certificates and places like opportunities in care like Green Valley in which so many of our citizens work enjoyable enjoyable situation from them I represent 10 counties here in the state of Wisconsin I think seven of them right now have facilities like this and I always enjoy touring them. They have all been good facilities. I've never seen anything that I would make any complaints about. We brought with us two people. We have Burgess Owens, who is a friend of mine, who is a congressman from Utah, and he is not aware of any facilities like this in Utah. So we're gonna have to find out about that. Some states have them and some states don't. But like I said in Wisconsin, I think we operate with about one Facility for every county and. Very good. We we already did take a tour, which is part of it. In addition to Congressman Owens, who's going to bring back to Washington his observations, we have some members here from the Department of Labor and the Department of Labor has a lot of influence on the future of facilities like that, and I know in the past one. I attended a committee in Washington and a lot of the people making decisions that would determine whether these facilities were going to continue to stay open had never toured them. But there are people running around who, for whatever motivation we're going to hear a little bit from them today, don't like this facility. They don't like 14C certificates and they apparently would not mind having these places shut down. Which is a true tragedy though it has happened in a couple of counties around here and then the employees have to find somewhere else to work. I have always liked these facilities because not only does it provide a paycheck for these folks and it makes them like the rest of the society, it makes them like their siblings, it makes them like their friends to go to work in the morning, to come home at night, to have the pride to be able to have their own money to buy clothes or food or what have you. I also think it's tremendous and it provides a social opportunity for people that they would not have otherwise. I know people with parents or guardians of folks in these situations worry about what will happen when someday those folks aren't around and they want very desperately for their children or wards to have a social life like everybody else does. I think for me certainly. My social life revolves a little bit about the people I know in Congress and the staff, and it makes them feel good that the employees you saw today, they can be working five or 10 or 15 years with other employees here, both management and other employees on the floor, which means they aren't alone, just with their parents watching TV or what have you. So that's another huge benefit here. Nobody is forced to work here, and there are people who, like I said, if they want to shut it down. they're kind of making a choice for some of the employees here who wouldn't want that choice. And it's amazing how intelligent the people are who work here, and how they, how it would mean to be, to me it would be just a very sad thing if you ever took the right to work here away from people, right? I mean, if people are happy working here, they should be able to continue to work here. We shouldn't create a situation in which people not in their shoes say, I know better, you shouldn't be working here, you should be in day services, or see what else DVR can find for you, or whatever. So, in any event, I'm so happy to be here, and we'll turn it over to, the way these things work, we'll turn them over to Congressman Owens for, I guess, your opening statement.