mr. john koskinen. before closing, i want to make a couple of points in response to the criticism of commissioner koskinen. first, it's important to remember that the principle problems that we have been talking about -- in other words chairman hatch and i have been talking about these issues here for probably close to an hour. it's important to remember that the principal problems we've been talking about regarding the i.r.s.'s handling of applications for section 501-c-4 status all occurred before mr. koskinen came on board as i.r.s. commissioner in december of 2013. in fact, during the entire period covered by the original 2013 inspector general investigation, the i.r.s. commissioner was mr. doug shulman, as i stated appointed by president bush. although mr. koskinen inherited these problems, he did not create them. second looking at how the i.r.s. handled the hard drive crash, i do think mr. koskinen waited too long to inform the finance committee and that the senior i.r.s. leadership could have don