 Hernandez reporting from Washington. The federal judiciary reported to Congress its appropriations requirements for fiscal year 2008 and it promised to continue efforts to contain cost. On March 21st judiciary officials proposed a 6.4 billion dollar budget to the appropriation subcommittees in both the House and the Senate. Our revised 2008 appropriations requirements reflect an increase of 452 million dollars over the 2007 enacted level. Of this amount 390 million or 86 percent of the increase is for standard pay and non-pay inflationary adjustments and for adjustments to base reflecting increases in our space, information technology, defender services and court security programs. The remaining 62 million dollars would fund enhancements to those programs and increase pay rates for panel attorneys. Gibbons testified the judiciary scrutinized every dollar of the increase. In constructing the 2008 budget request the judiciary made every effort to contain cost. Cost containment is also a priority at the administrative office of the US courts. It's a natural time I think to review our structure to ensure that the structure and our services that we provide to the courts are cost-effective and efficient and that they address the needs of the court. Congressional appropriators were receptive to the testimony. We all know the important role that an independent federal judiciary plays in our constitutional system but the judiciary like other government entities needs sufficient resources to properly function and perform its constitutional duties. At the Senate hearing committee members raised concerns about judiciary security. The federal protective services had a series of problems and difficulties here. This doesn't appear to be a new problem. This appears to be a recurring problem. Would you like to comment on just how bad this is? Obviously we all have much more heightened awareness today than we did a number of years ago of the need for such security and we are reluctant to let these things go once we find out about them and realize that we're not having difficulties that are of an isolated nature. The committees will review the request and send it through Congress in the upcoming months. The fiscal year begins October 1st. Reporting from Washington, I'm Javier Hernandez.