All officers would then remove those individuals. This isnt the time or place to it. Before i turn to our statements i wanted to go over a couple of housekeeping items. Centered leahy and i will deliver statements. They will introduce the nominee and following ms. Lynches opening remarks we will go to questions. After the first ground were going to do eight rounds of questions. I want everyone to know that im prepared to stay here as long as members have questions they want to ask. I think this is the most fair way to proceed and most importantly to the nominee who has to go through all of this and answer our questions. This is a very important position in the cabinet. We will do what we can to move it along. There is a lot of ground we want to cover and one final note on scheduling i would like it to be about 45 minutes. I know we have a series this afternoon and 15 amendments we have to vote on. The plan is to keep this hearing going even though it may not be as respectful to the pos