leif: i think that is true.e chinese government established a federal -- a chinese federal drug agency, much along the lines of other countries. that agency has decided to go quicker. you could also say more predictable. we have the ability to get our medicines across and have access to patients in a much better way than we used to. tom: i know you recently backed or invested in an incubator in china. could you look to acquire a chinese drugmaker as well, as you expand your footprint? is that something you would consider? leif: we are expanding our footprint. we have upwards of 400 r&d people in china. incubator is to get us into an ecosystem of large companies, academia, and small companies. we do not know where that takes us. we do not know what the startups or small and medium-sized companies will do, but i am interested to see if we can expand their positions in international markets, or make equity investments. too early to tell. tom: is there an amount you put aside for investment in china? leif: no, and i

testimony you seemed to lean a bit heavily i thought on the fact that the program at the time, i said leif ranned strong and technical safeguards and was subject to ongoing and regular review. you talked about the audit that was not respected despite some really troubling data it uncovered. the other part that i think that we need to talk about this morning, and i was waiting to hear what my colleagues were going to address. they addressed a lot of this, but is the it inventory. the investigation, as you know, found that equifax at the time failed to follow this basic practice of maintaining an it inventory of applications and assets on its systems. and without having this list equifax was not able to find the application that was vulnerable and exploited by the hackers. that's one that's been talked about previously called apache struts. you guys didn't even have it on your inventory, and so you couldn't find it. so i guess a few questions. one, since the breach, has equifax generated a comprehensive list on its application. >> we have chairman, and in great detail. not only that, my coll

as i mentioned, leif is an alaskan. he grew up there in anchorage. leif's mom was a librarian. his father was a principal, and he and his sisters grew up exploring and experiencing everything that is alaska, all things great. he attended east high school. he left to get his undergraduate degree in finance from here in washington, d.c. at georgetown university, my alma mater. he then went on to law school, went out to the university of arizona, and then shortly after he got his law degree, he returned home to anchorage thinking that he was going to practice law there. he wasn't there for too very long when then-appropriations committee chairman ted stevens tapped leif and said, look, i'd like to have you come back to washington, d.c. and work for me on the senate appropriations interior committee. and so it was at that time that leif made the big move, leaving from anchorage coming back here to washington, d.c. to work with his mentor and my mentor, ted stevens. and there's a lot of stories that go on around here. i've enjoyed getting to know the great senator from vermont, sena