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Youll notice when the third panelist pops up, hes kind of a big personality. Were going to start with my colleague, David Inserra who is a Research Associate specifically tasked with doing all of the Homeland Security issues for heritage. He specializes in cyber and immigration issues. But hes responsible for all of it. He works for me and gets to do all the work. I get to take the bows. He will be followed by adam sacks. Adam is the founder of the and president of tourism economics, which is dedicated to analyticallybased consulting for the tourism sector. He is an expert and a consultant dealing with hard numbers of the costs and benefits, and in some cases liabilities of certain programs, and how they affect that very large economic sector to us, which is the tourism sector. And then the missing third panelist is stewart baker. Stewart is a partner with stepto and johnson. But he was the First Assistant secretary of the department of Homeland Security for policy. And hes the guy who