. >> thank you, chairman meehan, ranking member spear and distinguished members, i'd like to thank you for the opportunity to discuss ice's efforts in supporting the dhs intelligence enterprise. typical offer the subcommittee a somewhat unique perspective because i've had the privilege actually the honor of serving in leadership roles in both ina and ice. one of the larger components of

chairman meehan, ranking member spear and distinguished members of the subcommittee. it's a privilege and honor to appear before you with my colleagues. and to discuss cpb or custom and border protections intelligence efforts and evolution. first i'd like to just highlight with almost 60,000 employees, cpb makes up the largest law enforcement organization in the nation. and has been given the responsibility to protect the united states from terrorists, weapons of mass effect, drug and human smugglers, agricultural disease, among other threats, all while fostering our nation's economic security and competitiveness through facilitating lawful international trade and travel. cbp provides a layered defense along with 7,000 miles of land border and along 95,000 miles of shoreline in partnership with the u.s. coast guard. at the core of cbp's mission is to detect and detour the movement of foreign terrorists and terror-related materials across the u.s. border. i'll give you two quick examples that highlight's cbp's highlights effort on this front. cbp officers at port angel

meehan of pennsylvania for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and chairman bair for your service to the country doing what w >> thank you, mr. chairman and chairman bair for your service to the country doing what was certainly a challenging time for the nation. and i'm sure you were looking for an opportunity to enjoy a life thereafter. but again, thank you for your service. there are so many aspects of the impact of what we tried to do in response to the many problems that occur. but all i see it back to the eyes of many of the people in my district who are facing issues locally and i was intrigued by your comment so many of the smaller banks are the ones competing now in a disadvantage because of the rules that have been focused on the large banks. and i hear a lot in my community particularly in the housing sector home builders, realtors, bankers, and they're seems to be a game in which they are all pointing to the other one and saying they are the ones responsible for not allowing us to get going. and everything that i have studied