mr. wester and i look forward to answering your questions about federal records. >> thank you. mr. wester, i understand you don't have a formal opening statement but to set a tone for the committee if you would tell the committee about what your relationship is with cios and how you're working with them and how you're working to hit the deadlines of capstone on behalf of the achivist and how you receive documents from treasury and irs. if you could set the stage, i think that's a good nonpartisan way to begin. >> thank you. i work with 100 staff members here in the washington, d.c. area and around the country to provide records management assistance to all federal agencies across the government of which there are about 250 active agencies that we work with. the staff that works on records management policy activities at the national archives work with the cio council and other councils across the government to identify different ways we need to approach this records management electronic records management challenge. what we've been doing since implementation of the directive back i