allow everyone Hello, I've been looking at you on this screen in front of me and I just want to thank you all for all the courage and endurance and commitments that you all have shown forever but especially in this last year and a half, and it is great to be with all of you I want to thank the administrator is available for your kind introduction, but also for your leadership, she and I've had many conversations since the beginning of the first days of our ministration and you really are so committed in such a great and important leader, especially at this moment in time. So thank you all, thank you all for your leadership and for being here. You know and I look at you and think about where you are. It's clear that you are not only leaders in business, you are civic leaders, you are community leaders, and you are our country's leaders, and I strongly believe that when someone starts a small business, it is a true act of self determination, a small business owner must have a vision, and through hard work and support. Realize that fish, which of course helps determine not only their future. But the future of their pay with us think about it, small businesses provide almost everything that people need in their community where they live in their neighborhood, from the local dry cleaners to the close neighborhood restaurant is a small batch manufacturer, small businesses, with good paying jobs, and in fact employ nearly half of the private sector workforce of America, small businesses, keep our nation, competitive, you know, the President I spend a lot of time thinking about our relationship with our allies and anyone I have a series around the world. And one of the great points of emphasis for us is that we must remain competitive. Well you are a big part of the formula for how we will do that. All that to say, You do so much. So again, thank you. When the President and I first took office, one of our top priorities was to provide small businesses with relief. And I need to remind you guys of those days when we first took office, and how folks were hurt and suffering in particular, how our small businesses were going for so much pain, through no fault of their own. But through our American rescue mission. We did what we intended to do in terms of relief to the tune of $60 billion. And as a result so many small businesses have been able to reopen and stay afloat. In fact, we learned today, in the first half of this year, Our economy has grown at the fastest rate in nearly 40 years. That's a good sign. And to build on this growth, our administration might be nice is that small business owners need more than just relief they need more than only relief they need more than belief. And in particular, an area that I focus on is the administrator. This is on what small businesses need. Also in terms of access to capital, access to capital and infrastructure that supports your words. And so our administration intends to deliver on both fronts. First on the issue of access to capital. So over the first six months. We have been in direct contact. And in fact, call and talk with some of the most active CDFIs community lenders, senior advisors the walking term but community lenders in our nation. And through these discussions and the work that I've been doing the Janet Yellen and our Treasury Department, We have begun to work on increasing community lending capacity, right, so they do so much but we need to increase their capacity to do more. And as you well know, traditional banks, well, they've not always seen or understood the vision, like a community bank can have to take for example, women small business owners are small business owners of color or small business owners who serve local communities or low income communities community lenders. On the other hand, well they understand the value in providing access to capital, directly to communities, they often exist in the community they live in the community and understand. And in that way, understand the vision and the ideas of the small business owners.