Order. ,etter late than never sorry, everybody. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. The hearing is titled fostering the next generation of leaders setting members up for success. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Take the case, i will not five minutes, because we are doing Something Different today. This committee sometimes likes to shake things up. Today, we are looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our community. We figured the best way to showcase the next generation of leaders were to feature this committees freshmen members actively participating in the work of this committee. We have all benefited from their unique perspectives as freshmen members, and representative timmons always gets here early, and his enduring patience has not gone unnoticed. Today, i yield to representative scanlon and representative timmons today. We like to finish up any opening rema