Assistant commissioner alles. Assistant commissioner alles thank you, sir. And good afternoon, sir. Good to see you again. You may recall we last visited our site in Corpus Christi in january. Thank you for coming down to see that. I would encourage any members of the committee to come visit our sites. I think thats very beneficial in understanding what we do better. As you noted, the office is a critical component of our later border strategy. The personnel operate 257 aircraft, 283 vessels and Sophisticated Network across the u. S. , puerto rico and the virgin islands. Oams critical and Maritime Missions fall into four areas, main awareness, investigation, interdiction and Contingency Operations and national taskings. We not only contribute to the security of our land border, but facilitate efforts with the coast guard to secure the coastal shoreline through the coordinated use of integrated air and marine forces. Since the consolidation of air and Marine Assets 11 years ago we have
Conservative. And if you look at the size of our budget deficit go back about six years budget deficit peaked out at 1. 4 trillion. And its been coming down since then. Its down by about 2 3. But we still have a big deficit by historical standards. And we need to continue to work on that. Three things, i think, we need to do. We need tax reform that lowers the rates, broadens the base and helps raise money for deficit reduction. We need entitlement reform that serves old people, poor people, frankly saves these programs for our kids. Find way to save money in the entitlement programs so theyll be around for our children and grandchildren. The last thing we need to do is look at everything we need to do and get a better result for less money. Everything we do. Including how to secure our border in a costeffective way. This is going to be a good hearing. Thanks very much. Thank you, senator. Youll enjoy our hearing next week talking about the 30year deficit and those projections and cert