to get that to his state on account of the flooding issues. and a warm welcome obviously to other governors here, governor mansion, governor markel, governor richardson, governor perjury will be joined by governor. later on this morning. in addition to the governors, many of whom spent much of their career in the private sector as well, which i think it s useful information for a topic today, we re also joined by chamber and business leaders from each of the state. welcome to all of you. these leaders represent a broad range of sectors including manufacturing, information technology, health care and oil refinery and on and on. and why don t we take a moment and let each of our chamber of business leaders tell us their names, what their business is our and what state they re from, so that the governors cannot some feel for who were visiting with them will start at the end with you, bill from delaware. [inaudible] thank you. [inaudible] [inaudible] thank you. [inaudible]
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