mr. policinski, and also thank you for being specific. because you specified five things. this committee will have to make some decisions and i think those are excellent suggestions. mr. parker. >> thank you, chairman inhofe, ranking member cardin and memories of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today on the topic of freight movement assessing where we are and where we are going. i knowitit other witnesses will concentrate in the testimony on map-21 and fast act so i will not do that. instead of a focus on the boards of inland waterways, transportation system and potential reforms that could modernize this critically important system. i curse of schip of parker towing company headquartered in tuscaloosa alabama and operate 26 towboat and 326 barges. an chairman of the board of directors of the waterways council. which is a national public policy organization advocates for modern well-maintained system inland waterways and ports. the transportation system is made up of 12000 miles of the inland waterways with the intracoastal waterways ne