Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'm not an accountant either, Mr. Holder, but I know figures dance and dancers can figure, so let me try to be shorter-winded but at least talk about the numbers.
Clearly, if you extrapolate the numbers out and keep everything the same as 2009-10—in other words, a caseload of 1,689 and it doesn't spike back up—it will take you about 4.6 years to reduce the backlog, give or take a month.
That means you're going to have to keep asking for the budget increases you've asked for as additional increases to clear the backlog. Does that seem reasonable and rational to you?