mr. winfield for five minutes. >> thank you for joining us this afternoon. as i have said in my opening statement, the agency should be commended, because the highways are safety today, that may have been in a statistical standpoint. we have heard a lot of articles written, and there was one of them recently that said that nhtsa had not been accomplishing their mission and they were a lapdog for the industry. there has been a lot of criticism about the agency. and as the administrator, how would you respond to that, in a general way? is this criticism true? >> we have been a very active agency. the agency has been very active since the new secretary took over and in my review of the work that has been done with toyota, we opened eight separate investigations over the time when there were complaints about the sudden accelerations. a lapdog does not do this. the goal is for us and the statutory order, to find any defects in the vehicle safety that caused risk. anytime that there is an anomaly in the number of complaints with what we see in the early warning sy