Insightful with respect to the wall and if we have time at the end i will be happy to take some questions. Let me start with kind of what weve been spending our time on at the department the. This is the operational policy challenges of the department so the first challenge i want to discuss its counterterrorism and as joe and others now counterterrorism was the Founding Mission of the department and it continues to be the cornerstone of what we do compared to 2003 when the department was established the terrorism threat today is more challenging and more decentralized and diffuse and arguably more complex. We are more concerned about the foreign fighters who leave this country and others have traveled to another and take up to the fight and link up with a terrorist organization. They are concerned about the terrorist organizations adapted and skilled use of the internet to publicly recruit and inspire individuals. To prevent the travel of the foreign terrorist fighters the secretary r
Issues. Something my boss does, something small, but we think significant, goes down to the senate florior every month to tk about employee at dhs doing extraordinary things from tsa to s t, i. C. E. Employees, doing simple things, doing their job, going above and beyond its something small but we think important. Part of the management unity effort mentioned earlier. And this is something that were closely looking at in the senate. And and i know the house as well. Some of the proposals require legislative language to move some of the boxes around dhs. Thats something that were closely looking at. Finally on management, ill close with st. Elizabeths, a dhs consolidated headquarters, something my boss has supported and we issued actually a staff report last congress on looking at the saint es project. You talked about 22 different agencies, scattered over 4050 building as loan, having a simple meeting it can be a task going across town. Has operational benefits for the department but a