mr. cuellar. >> thank you for letting me be here. we as the country -- one of the most important things we need to do is secure the border. for those of us here in texas, we understand that in areas -- securing the border has always been and 1 mile of technology will cost about million dollars per mile. we have to be smart about how secure the border. you are right. 40 percent of those individuals across the river came in through illegal permits. we have to be smart on how we do it. when we spend billions of dollars we have to understand -- we need to get the best bang for the dollars. we have been struggling on how we measure the results for those billions of dollars. how we measure what we are doing. a lot of times it has been us immerses you. i appreciate all of the work you are doing. as mr. thompson said, a lot of times we as the oversight individuals are not given information until later. the porter commission index, i have not seen it. i have not seen who is putting it together. i was given the same answer that you all are wor