. >> i think the gentleman from florida and i recognized the gentleman from maryland, mister cummings five minutes. >> thank you very very much mister chairman. let me try to understand mister sullivan, there are 14 allegations is that rice was marked. >> that's not 100 percent accurate mister cummings area we have 14 cases pending at the agency in which we've already submitted a report of investigation. we have many, many more in the pipeline that we have not yet written a report of investigation so we have approximately 90 pending misconduct cases right now. >> the reason why i ask that is i said to myself, you talk about the agents that are available to investigate and i was saying to myself, 14 cases. i know it takes a lot of manpower but you got about 90 cases that you actually are involved in.>> yes mister cummings but we also have in excess of 150 additional cases, 97 fraud cases, contracting grant fraud cases, we don't have a number of investigations, that investigations, assault investigations. it runs the spectrum. for the misconduct we have currently 90 pending cases, 14 of

>> mister cummings, i'm not trying to get rid of you but you understand what i'm saying. >> i appreciate that. i'm concerned that when we have an investigation and because i don't have enough special agents to expeditiously investigate allegations, we eventually get to them but the old saying justice delayed is justice denied, i'm concerned i don't have enough agents to adequately and immediately address some of these allegations. that's why there's so many cases in thepipeline and if you do the math , my professional responsibility which is in special unit headquarters doing essentially gs 15 and political appointees, the average 9.5 cases each and agents in the field average approximately seven casey and a lot of those cases in the field are multibillion-dollar fraud investigations that are very involved so i simply do not have enough agents to expeditiously investigate every case i have on my plate . >> will you continue to work with us to come up with solutions to the problem? i agree with you but you and mister mr. meiburg have been wonderful sitting down and trying to work out but

. >> to conclude we will do a quick round of summary questions, mister cummings. >> one of the things that is so disturbing to me as certain areas of people getting methadone treatment. when you see the number of people whose lives have been destroyed and we see masses of them and i say to the gentleman from south carolina, mister gowdy, i want to invite you to come with me to baltimore and when you see the masses of people who are not -- it is painfully painful i am telling you and agree that there are those selling drugs, not using. i agree with you there are folks committing a lot of crime. most of the crime has to do with drugs in one way or another, also a group of people who are truly addicted, and 78 a day, that is major stuff. i would invite you. when you see it like that, the chairman came to me in baltimore, in some way we got to get to it. there are a lot of different remedies to try to address these things but i am definitely not one that wants to be soft on people going around selling death and i have said to you many times, at the same time we have a lot of people who tr

guru, second is a letter from the white house addressed to me, copies of the ranking member, mister cummingshow the white house would not make been roads available to the committee and i would like to enter into the record from senator mark kirk and senator john barrasso and i would like to enter these into the record. >> without objection so ordered. >> air ran, one of three countries on the state sponsors of terrorism and i think it is important we have some clarity, there are some issues outstanding, one of the most important policy initiatives the president has taken forward but i still think it demands a lot of clarity. we were hoping the clarity would be provided by benjamin rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications and speechwriting. obviously a very talented and trusted person in the white house. i do not doubt his talons and knowledge but the deal that had been spun up, was not as clear as it should have been. i have questions about the transparency, truthfulness and when it ultimately started and those are legitimate questions as we move forward because