boucek? >> chairman casey, members of the subcommittee, i would like to thank you for the opportunity to discuss a critical issue for the united states's policy towards yemen. i would like to say i think it is important to keep in mind there is very much we don't know about what is going on in yemen right now. it is difficult to get accurate information about what is happening and more difficult to travel. it is very fluid and changing surge nation as was noted in the first panel. it is also important to note initial fears of violence, how bad things could really go have not come to pass. there have been some episodes of severe violence but it has not devolved into the civil war we are talking about five or six months ago. things could go wrong very quickly. this goes to the importance why we are here to speak about yemen. yemen's problems are very well known. they were gone over at length in the first panel but it bears keeping in mind the family economy is the heart of everything going wron