Congress looks to the Senior Executive Service, or ``SES'' as we refer to it, to provide leadership so that the government may successfully deliver services to the American people. A 1978 law creating the SES intended it to be an elite…

At this point, I have no additional people wishing to speak on this particular bill, but I would like to read one statement from Senator Rand Paul. He said: ``It is time for more transparency in virtually every part of our government.'' I…

I guess one of the issues here is using federal tax dollars for political targeting.

Chairman Issa has been a strong supporter over time of the fact that we need to have what is called streamlined critical path authority.

What would be the great enforcement mechanism, that if they don't give you 100 percent of the documents that they get their budget cut by 10 percent?

I think today highlights really in a bipartisan way the need for full disclosure to the OIGs...

So there is not a clearance issue here, there is not a propriety issue. And so really there is no reason at all why you should not be getting 100 percent of what you request.

What is the reason these agencies would do that, Mr. Elkins?

I think all of us here would agree that we don't want Republicans, Democrats, or unaffiliated, or agencies to influence your work.

So has this been a new revelation, that all of a sudden we have this new revelation in the last couple of years that it doesn't mean that?

I think therein is the problem. You know, I used to be in real estate. I got paid based on what I sold or what I didn't sell.

I don't think that you sold one-third of your inventory.