jeffrey minear who is counselor to the present. kevin cline who is director of budget of personnel, pamela talkin, the marshall of the united states supreme court, william suter, the clerk of the court, and kathy arberg, our public information officer. i might say that we have a staff working under principally jeffrey minear and kevin cline who talks a regular basis with your staff. this is an oversight function in itself. and my understanding is that your staff has been actually helpful and cooperative, and madam chairman, if you could extend our thanks to your staff. our budget request for fiscal 2012 is a reduction, if you take an assumed budget for fiscal 2011 and we worked very hard at the reduction because we are quite conscious of the fact that the government must be extremely careful in its stewardship of the taxpayers dollars. our budget request for this year, for fiscal 2012, is 75 million, $500,000. that is a reduction of $706,000 from the assumed budget in fiscal year 2011. even with the assumed reduction we have been a