mr. maffei: we continue to look into it. cruise ships is the one area where we have something that did that. chair cruz: some press coverage says the panama canal is nominally independent even though it provides a large share of the panamanian government's revenue. chairman sola, can you describe how the fmc views the canal in the panamanian government? are they distinct entities or a single government apparatus? mr. sola: our law is clear and comes from the reading act of 1920 that there is only one entity. it addition to that our predecessor at the federal maritime commission was formed in 1916 in direct result of the panama canal. the very first chairman of that was the first administrator of the canal. we look at it as one entity. mr. maffei: i might just add it is like the georgia ports authority in the state of georgia. the georgia ports of party is clearly -- the georgia ports authority is fully independent but ultimately georgia is responsible. chair cruz: panama was the first latin american country to join china's b