leadership of this subcommittee to bring our concerns to the attention of acting administrator mel carroway to get timely action to address the security vulnerabilities. with that, mr. chairman and ranking member i thank you for your prompt attention to this critical security matter and yield back. >> thank you, mr. thompson. other members of the committee are reminded that opening statements maybe submitted for the record. we are pleased to have a distinguished panel of witnesses before us today on this important topic. let me remind the witnesses that their entire written statements will appear in the record. our first witness, the honorable john roth, assumed the post of inspector general of the department of homeland security on march 10, 2014. previously mr. roth served as director of criminal investigations at the food and drug administration. prior to that, he had a long and distinguished career with the department of justice beginning in 1987 as assistant u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. i'll note mr. roth had excellent on-the-job training at the narcotic and dang