. >> as senator mccall pointsed out, this was the anniversary of the death of agent topada, thank you for all you've done for the family. but we are starting to get inconsistent information coming out of that investigation. if you can keep us up to date on that. despite the overall budget decrease, we are looking at doubling the fee passengers pay from $2.50 to $5 for the tsa, i applaud you for cutting spending, i'm a little concerned about raising taxes, especially when we were not really seeing a need there. we have got the tsa actually working better than it has in the past and we have got a lot of our technology expenditures under control, why the need for increasing that fee? >> thank you and thank you for your kind words about tsa, i think they have made a lot of progress in the last few years. it's a fee, not a tax. that is an important difference, it has not been increased since 200 2002, in the meantime, the congress has appropriated dollars after dollars do make sure we have good technology that we have the right number of personnel that are properly-- properlily trained and