mr. prouty did. as acting administrator, he changed the agency so he went back to his old position as pbs commissioner in the region with enhanced authority that he himself had made and your regional administrator had diminished authority and you yourself, therefore, had diminished authority. i have to say, ms. johnson, i think you were snookered by your own pbs commissioner. >> there's one piece that makes it a little difficult. i believe that the way to think about that contracting authority is either it came up to me through the regional admip administrator or through the commissioner. it was still coming to me. i don't know if it's six, one, half dozen or seven to five, but it was a shift and it still devolved up to me in terms of contracting authority. >> mr. chairman? >> it was still coming up to you, but you were doing nothing about it. that's the issue here. that's why we continue to come back around on this issue. mr. miller, when you do an investigation and you come back with this prelimina