Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. Senior evp clark, here at the u. S. Chamber and im delighted to welcome you here today. When you have my job, you get to be in this room and say a lot. Ntence but actually mean it today. More than usual. Not because youre so charming started my career at the American Trucking association and you just dont really get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at time, so thank you so much for being here. Hank you to our partners and sponsors. Thank you to ed mortimer and his alented team for putting this together. Ed leads our infrastructure efforts and were lucky to have him. Chamber is a founding sponsor of iweek. Is that a thing . All right. Sponsor of ding iweek and were really proud to bipartisan the Steering Committee and have been proud to see how this meeting grown in reach and and programmatic activity every year. Ou all know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn. Challenge and de has to be a nationw
Tell us about the chamber and what you do and how youre expanding your outreach. It was founded 41 years ago. And our mission is to help businesses to grow. Thats really our mission and main focus are minorities and we help them through education, advocacy goovrndment representation. We have several programs to serve them. One is Technical Assistance and we help them either with a marketing plan, with a financial plan, we help them to incorporate this business and to think through ideas. The Second Program we have is Networking Opportunities so basically we match company with opportunities and the third problem is being in the meetings in the western hemisphere and we look for opportunities to connect. How many members do you have. And no business is too small of a business to join the chamber . No and we have some individuals for people that want to open a business. It is really a chamber of commerce is a place for people to connect, to network and to look for opportunities and thats