he's held this office since februarymu of 27 e. and charged with assisting the president to fulfill his vision through the production of the central budget and its implementation across the executive branch. prior to his time as the director of the office of t management and budget he served the people ofio this district south carolina as their congressman where he was first elected in 2010. duringn, this time he served on both the budget committee and the joint economic committee for the informational colleagues, he will take less than seven minutes followed by questions. we look forward to receiving your testimony. f please begin. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my mother would be glad to know i finally did get that doctrine. appreciate the opportunity to be here. i've already submitted a formal opening statement for the record and i would depart from that to say a few things before i start taking questions. we have the sketchy -- skinny budget right now and this year i've come down with two budgets would resent the last couple of ho