[laughter] [applause] and then to my dear, dear friend, congress and steve daines -- congressman steve daines. [applause] fireman is a passionate for freedom -- fighter for freedom. he is a passionate fighter for the constitution. he loves this country and each and every day, he is crawling over looking glass with a knife between his teeth, fighting for the men and women in the great state of i would. -- iowa. [applause] this morning at church, many of our pastors may well have gone back to the original greek scripture. if you look at the roots of a word, you can tell a lot about it. if you look at the root of the word politics, there are two parts. and ticksng many meeting bloodsucking parasites. [laughter] and that is a fairly accurate description of washington, d.c. [applause] but you know, we are here this afternoon for something a lot more important than politics. we are here because our country is in crisis. we are here because we are bankrupting our kids and grandchildren. because our constitutional rights are under assault each and every day and because america has receded from