mr. neil barofsky. we will eliminate that. the fact is you have been very generous with your time. you have given us a lot of food for thought. riefly, chris all by thinking that chairman and secondly by asking the chairman with the consider bringing the treasury secretary here to a next close a loop on a lot of a series of transparency that i think treasury deserves an opportunity to tell us from their perspective why they have not yet implemented it these. .. we look forward to having you back a tear, but i want to thank you for doing everything you can do to bring the level of transparency. for myself and for the chairman, we want to promise that we will be your partners in bridging the bureaucratic nightmare that always exists between a president like president obama, who has promised us transparency, and the congress to begs for transparency, the ideas that produce it, and the bureaucracy bedstands away. you have our support on a bipartisan basis. you will continue to have our support, because we agree with you that transparency is the only form of disinfectant that will preve

mr. chairman. >> i'd invite the second panel to be seated. i'm pleased to introduce our second panel of witnesses for this afternoon's hearing. we'll start with and welcome back neil barofskyecial inspector general of sigtarp. next, elizabeth warren, chair of the congressional oversight panel, and finally, we'll hear testimony from mr. tom mccool, directer for the center of economics at the government can't office. without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. you'll each be recognized, and votes are now being called. you'll be recognized for a 5-minute statement summarizing your written testimony. inspector general barofsky, you're recognized for 5 minutes, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman, it's an honor to be back before this committee. >> thank you. >> it's also an honor to be sitting next to two of our most important oversight partners, of course, professor warren and mr. mccool from gao. this week we've introduced and presented our most recent quarterly report, and the oversight that we've been conducting over the past quarter. ucting over the past quarter. and so much of that is the result of the coordination that we've had with our overs