average cost is about $100 per person per day, alternative rvices, such as telephone reporting, unannounced home visits and electronic monitoring costs less than $20 per person per day and are successful. the intensive supervision appearance program currently has a 99% total appearance rate for all immigration hearings. a 95% appearance at final removal hearing and 91% compliance rate on removal orders. this program has been successful at pilot sites in colorado, california, kansas, maryland and pennsylvania. i.c.e. has sought funding. this increases the budget for alternatives to detention programs by 16% above the president's request. mr. polis: i thank the chairman highlighting most cost effective alternatives and recognizing the financial costs. i applaud his leadership as well as congresswoman roybal-allard on this important issue. and i yield back. mr. price: i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i yield three minutes to a very hard-working member of our subcommittee, mr. calvert. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. calvert: i wo

take one to test his proficiency and he'll have a random blind check that will show up with him unannounced is a lot of testing that goes on. of the first officer has one physical and one check. and an occasional line check. they're being rel scrutinized with their professional standards and feedback mechanisms. >> senator, if i may just for a moment. mr. babbitt has referred to his service on the independent review team under then-secretary peters. one of the findings of the team was that there was unambiguous commitment to the core mission of safety on the part of faa safety staff and that has been my experience as well since the time i've been ig and observing faa in action. a follow-on observation of the team, however, was that there was, quote, a remarkable degree of variation and regulatory ideologies among field office staff which could result in wide variances and possible errors in regulatory decision-making. in fact, there's no faa standard referring to training failures that you described. mr. babbitt, of course, is correct when he says faa inspectors have a wide degree of latitu