I believe i firmly believe that each one of us in this chamber much opposed this session with a courtcutting principle. Until every person in our state who wants a job can find one, we have more work to do. [applause] we cannot stick our heads in the sand or simply hope for the best, not one other states are actively recruiting jobs from every corner of the globe. Jobs that can and should come to connecticut. We must compete for every single job. With that mind set, we began to tackle the challenges of Economic Development in an holistic way in our state. Our first five programs, along with the addition of jackson laboratories, has leveraged a 180 million commitment public funding to drive more than 2 billion in private investment. That same program it possible for connecticut to bring two fortune 500 companies to our state. The last time we talked about two fortune 51 companies was in 2006, and that was because they were leaving. In main streets across connecticut, the Small Business