Thank you, those of you who are here in the audience, those who have joined online on cspan, welcome. It will be a riveting conversation and i say that as a historian. Just a couple minutes of comments before i turn it over to my colleague steve moore who will be running the show tonight and that is in 1994 i was president of my university of College Republicans and it was more than a dream, the son of the reagan revolution that dick armey would soon be the majority leader, phil gramms canonic expertise along with leader armeys for a narrow window in my american political history would be a descendent in this town and while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell on the past, we can as we are in the brink of a red wave, i mean that philosophically, this year, that isnt merely about party registration, one party being in charge instead of another, it is about ideas that define us as a people, namely freedom flourishing, and this town and this Government Spending less money. It