buller: good morning. i plan to talk with you a little about how the legislation howittee for sigi works and we interact with congress and our role. everybody understands, i think, importance of all of the tools that congress has given us the independence, the accessed information, access to the head of the agency, but in my opinion, the most effective tool that was given to us was to report directly to congress that has allowed us flexibility, i think, that we normally would not have branchral executive employees. sigi08 congress crted and the i.g. reform act and as sigi's sigi, as part of function, it unified the i.g.'s reallycommunity that made our effectiveness and greaterence ability than it had been as individual a legislation committee chair, we kind of parlayed that into our dealings congress. peg gustafsson, she was the before me and i inherited a lot of great work from peg when i took over. thank you, peg. one of the things that we do as toegislation committee is try to make sure that legislation