please proceed with your statement. >> thank you, chairman acacia. i'm proud to sit before you along with the ease steamed counter parts. i want to thank you fur the opportunity to appear before the committee today, and in particular, for your continued support for the fbi's foreign language program, and our critical in mission the district ever e intelligence's language service section is responsible for the organization's entire foreign language program. they support the fbi's mission by providing quality language missions to the fbi and partners. service include foreign language recriewment, hiring, testing, training, translanlations, interpretations and other foreign language functions. the language service section provide -- structure at fbi headquarters to ensure that our langist resource base of over 1400 increase of 85 percent since 9/11 is strategically acliented with priorities set by our operational divisions, and with national intelligence priorities. the fbi rely os foreign language capabilities to quickly and accurately inform operation