mr. rolfe's seat on the cac, and i do so with humility. so much of this is predicated on a witch and a prayer, and i think without any funding identified, with the budget for high-speed rail but i think everyone in this room supports doubling over time, we are seeing a lot of wishful thinking here, and it requires looking at why high-spe budget double ol amount of time. have the implants gone up that much? i think there are some legitimate concerns on how this is being managed, and it seems to be consulted-full employment ad. talking about extensions downtown for the past 15 years with little progress, talking about electrification of caltrain down at the peninsula with little progress, it is important to get to the point where we can put some of the building blocks in place of public confidence to make this happen instead of just going around in circles. will this happen in our lifetimes? not at the rate we're going. i did not seem like that is the goal here. when you are looking at the culture of corruption we have seen in government of

. >> a look like to recognize mr. rolfe -- mr. murphy from pennsylvania for another five minutes. >> thank you. the memo states that is critical to evaluate itself. to that end, let me ask for your candid response. why was this not done until now? >> why was some of this not done until now in terms of evaluating itself? was there anything that stood in the way of delaying this kind of self evaluation? >> thank you. no, sir. as i indicated earlier we have had several reviews. this is the most extensive one we of asked for, but we have had several reviews over the course of the program since i became undersecretary. >> who set the goals for each year? >> i am sorry, sir? >> who is responsible for setting the goals? >> the program director provides the goal. they go up the chain of command to the secretary an undersecretary and then to me. >> is that public information in terms of the goals and objectives? >> i want to check. >> how you measure the goals and objectives? is there some internal measure? >> let me ask david wolf to answ