i am arthur elkins. thank you for inviting me to appear before you today.this opportunity to publically commend the office of inspector general staff across the federal government who work hard each day to carry out our important mission. as the committee is aware, for more than a year this oig was confronted with the denial of access by the csb. the csb's leadership asserted that the denial was based on attorney/client privilege. we countered that such denial violated section 6a1. with that impairment, we resorted to the rarely invoked seven day letter. this committee held a hearing on june 19th at which you stated the csb to turn over the documents to the oig within a week. the csb since has produced several sets ofdetermined but te not fully complied with our document request. however, the evidence we have gathered demonstrates that there are additional documents within the scope of our request the csb officials have not provided. in addition, to the csb matter, the epa office of homeland security continues to impede the investigations of this oig. we pr

as well as arthur elkin junior who is part of the u.s. department of protection agency. have cathy bullard who is the inspector general of the peace corps. ladies and gentlemen, pursuant to the committee rules, please rise and take the oath. and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony will get will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? and please be seated. let the record reflect that all have answered in the affirmative. and since you are all skilled professionals and since you are less than 20 hours from a similar event, we know you like to keep your opening statement to five minutes in your entire statements will be placed in the record without objection. with that, you are up. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you members of the committee. thank you for inviting me today at this important hearing. including agency files that goes to the heart of our mission to provide nonpartisan oversight and that is why 27 inspector generals found late last month a letter expressing your concern about this issue and i want to yank the membe

the honorable arthur a. elkins jr. is the inspector general of the u.s. environmental protection agency. and the honorable ms. kathy a. fuller is the inspector general of the peace corps. lady and gentlemen, pursuant to the committee rules, would you please rise to take the oath. raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you will give today will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? please be seated. let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. since you're all skilled professionals, and mr. horowitz, since you're less than 24 hours from a similar event, you know that we would like you to keep your opening statements to five minutes, summarize in any way you can and that your entire opening statement will be placed into the record without objection. with that, mr. horowitz, you're up. >> thank you, mr. chairman, congressman cummings, members of the committee. thank you for inviting me to testify today at this very important hearing. goes to the heart of our mission to provide ind

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