my question for the former prosecutors for doj will start with mister ups, mister norton. what communications or information would you seek to learn whether the intent of the procurement business and the abortion clinic was to profit from selling baby body parts?mister sue po, let's startwith you . >> put on your mic. >> i pressed the button and then it went off. well, miss some of that evidence is already in this record. i've heard again, everyone quickly rushing to insist that these videotapes are just a safe, deceptively prepared. in other words, do what we are extremely at that doing, this industry which is deflecting and everyone else is at fault. let's shift the focus so everyone focused on hey, what these videos did and what this person said, how he prepared the videos.but those videos were posted, all of those videos were posted and there are some things that when peoplesay them on tape , it doesn't matter what they didn't say or did say elsewhere. if someone is saying that would be good and were talking about profiting from this and they're talking about that, that

chairman, i want to assure you and mister schuster and ms. norton and mister defazio that the washington metropolitan delegation is united in its determination to ensure working with you that america's subway is a subway system second to none. thank you very much. >> thank you congressman boyer. next is congressman connolly. >> german grays, chairman schuster, ranking members norton and defazio, thank you for having us here today. i'm delighted to join with my colleagues mister hoyer and mister delaney. i serve as the ranking member of the governing operations committee of the oversight and government reform committee which held its own hearings on metro and the weight of the plaza tragedy. the challenges facing metro are significant and i welcome collaboration between our two committees to ensure robust oversight over metro's management of federal dollars and adherence to see federal safety standards. i've spent the last 22 years working in metro. first is a member of the fairfax board of supervisors whereas german i made appointments to the metro

norton. >> thank you mister chairman and thank you mister meiburg and mister sullivan for being here. to get back to one of the themes of this hearing, i've been interested to hear about the testimonies given on improvedcoordination . between the epa and the ig and the reason that interest me as we obviously want to reduce the time that employees spend on administrative leave when obviously they are not doing anything for the agency so i'm interested in the investigative process. irecognize that it takes time, it can cut corners . you can be sued so also, i understand that some of these investigations can be very complex area mister sullivan, i'm interested in the funding available to the agency for the job that needs to be done investigating. can you tell me what the staffing levels are for the team that investigates misconduct allegations? >> yes ma'am, i can tell you in general the current authorized fte for the inspector general's office on the whole is 289 employees. the drop in the last five years from 360. in my office i have an authorized fte strength of 76 five years ago, now