mr. serrano. >> mr. chairman, that was going to be my first question also that you asked. let me just -- i don't know if you got the number the right the same way as i see it, it was -- not you about mr. botticelli. you said 672. that's what it is now. it will reduced to 614, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> you spoke of spreading the money around more. that's a program at a seems to be working. i'm wondering why the administration would propose a cut. i think you're hearing something, unless i heard it wrong, something that usually don't hear from all members of a committee and that is asking the question, how can you continue to function at a level that does credit to a program that obviously works and has the support of many members of this committee. >> you know, clearly our drug free communities program is one of the back bones of our prevention infrastructure in the united states. obviously we had to look at how did we have restraints spending in fy 2015. again, i think the proposal if enacted would be we didn't eliminate any of the existing grantees but have a

serrano. >> thank you mr. chairman. i also would like to join you in a welcoming the director of the national drug control program michael botticelli. the office of national drug control policy's mission is placed at the forefront of federal drug policy at the intersection of federal agencies such as the department justice transportation state and the treasury. fiscal year 2015 budget request for ondcp is approximately $311 million, a decrease of $55 million from the fiscal year 14 funding level. this will hopefully be targeted towards improved coordination and oversight of the jug control programs and policies, something i continue to be concerned about with regards to the agency. this issue is particular relevant in light of the attorney general eric holder's recent proposal for reduced drug sentencing. i hope we will be able to discuss this issue so i can better understand your role in these efforts and learn what you are doing to reform some of our criminal justice policies with regard to drugs. i also continue to b

mr. serrano to say anything nice about me.f you ran out of time i would be happy to provide additional time. i want to thank my friend mr. serrano for his comments. as you can see we have strong bipartisan support. i know we have your assurances we are going to try to fix that. there are a lot of issues i think we agree on in this committee that don't always get media headlines. it's nice to find more of those we can work together on. it's nice to find folks on both sides of the aisle working on that and issues. i want to give another one we have bipartisan agreement on. this comes from a constituent as i asked what questions should i ask he irs commissioner, and i think this is a very important question and probably felt by a lot of americans. we talked about the trust deficit that exists between the internal revenue service and americans, particularly in light of what i will term as much more egregious than maybe we heard from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, then the abuse of the code to attack people based on