Bob Schaffer: “If I can clarify, Ernst and Young was hired by the Department of Education to perform the audit on the Department's…”

“If I can clarify, Ernst and Young was hired by the Department of Education to perform the audit on the Department's books, much like many businesses do around the country today to hire outside auditors to come in and give an objective perspective. This was an audit the Department of Education paid for presumably so they can learn from the result, not only on the financial side of the audit, but the performance side. What I am hearing the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra) say, as what we have heard in the committee before, that the Department of Education actually had predicted, they knew. Go ahead; please clarify.”