Good evening. I am pleased to welcome you inside the walker theater for this 2014 United States Senate Debate. Tonights event is presented by aarp and the West Virginia press association. We welcome our viewers on cspan tonight. You have an opportunity to hear from the democratic and republican candidates in their own words as we discussed many of the issues important to West Virginians and their families. Tonights debate includes an opportunity for you to be involved in the discussion by social media. Secretary of state Natalie Tennant, the democratic candidate. In as the 29th secretary of state in 2009 and reelected in 2012. She attended wb you where she earned her bachelors and masters degrees in represented the school as the first female mountaineer. She worked in West Virginia Television Broadcast media for more than a decade and was a coowner of the Video Production and Media Training firm she operated with her husband. Theyre the parents of a daughter. To my right is congresswom