Well, thank you for that but lets start things a little more formally if we can. Id like everybody who can rise to rise and lets say the pledge of allegiance. Shall we . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I want you to know im here because i work for you. [ applause ] and my im not here to lecture at you. My hope is that we all learn something from each other tonight. There is some other people who work for you that i want to introduce to you. Theyre all people who work in the district, in the in pennsylvania in the 17th Congressional District. And i want you to get to know who they are a little bit in case you ever need to call upon them for help. Starting with my district director, mr. Bob morgan. Now, now bob is also an Economic Development specialist and when i first learned about what it is to be a member of congress i learned that
, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I want you to know, im here because it work for you [applause] rep. Cartwright im not here to lecture at you. I hope we all learn something from each other. There are some other people who work for you that i want to introduce to you. They are all people who work in the district in pennsylvania in the 17th Congressional District, and i want you to know who they are in case you ever need to call upon them for help. Starting with my district director mr. Bob morgan. [applause] cartwright bob is also an Economic Development specialist and when i first learned about what it is to be a member of congress, i learned there are no more earmarks. We will talk about that in a bit. What that means is you need Economic Development specialists to help local municipal toicials right for grants get federal funding for important local projects. Bob is an Economic Development specialist, we also have mr. Bill hanley down at the end from pottsv