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(Chorus of "good mornings" from the audience.)<br />

It's great to see so many of you here filling up the<br />

seats. There are seats for all of you, that huge crowd standing in the<br />

back, there's a lot of seats in the front.<br />

(Laughter.)<br />

You know, I found as a professor that there's always<br />

empty seats in the front.<br />

(Laughter.)<br />

And I encourage you all to sit in them.<br />

So, first of all, I want to start off by thanking you all for<br />

your patience and dedication during the recent government shutdown.<br />

I know it was sometimes very complicated and sometimes very<br />

stressful for everyone, but we got through it.<br />

It certainly did disrupt our operations, but it was clear<br />

that we were able to continue our mission of protecting our nation.<br />

And I'm really proud of how everybody responded.<br />

I would particularly like to thank our EDO Mark Satorius<br />

and our CFO Jim Dyer, and the other senior managers who worked so<br />

hard to minimize the impact and see us through this past month. So,<br />

let's thank them.<br />

(Applause.)<br />

So, setting aside these most recent events, it has been<br />

a very busy year for the <strong>NRC</strong>. Despite resource limitations that we had<br />

as a result of the sequestration, I'm pleased to say that we have had a<br />

number of important accomplishments.<br />

We have continued to ensure safe and secure

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