ms. liswood, you brought it up. i'm really intrigued by that idea. >> i think certainly centralized entity can assist in the 435 businesses that you have. in other words, they can be the ones who identify the best practices. they can bring expert in to help. they can perhaps to diversity audits for your office to help you see what it is that you may need to think about. they could potentially help you think about, i mentioned what pools your fishing from an expand the number of polls. so you can get some consistency across the 435, and with the understand each office is going to have its own particular perspective on what it wants and what it needs, but to help ensure you are not doing unconscious bias kinds of things as we discussed. to give you those tools to improve that which are already trying to do. >> thank you. dr. mitchell, any -- >> i would encourage you and you think about that, especially since the rooney rule with brought up as well, , you can he an office that acts as a referee to provide guidance that

ms. liswood?> as i listen to you i'm thinking, well, this he could certainly be a resource for you to help you identify what organizations might be useful for you in your district, for example, to find more diverse candidates or to post for jobs. so i can see that as certainly a value for something like this centralized group. yes, you have those kinds of disparities between d.c. and your particular -- on the other hand i would also encourage thinking about diversity as a much broader sense of what diversity is, because you are looking for who is going to give me the different perspectives i need? whose world view is different than my world view? who is going to ask questions that perhaps wouldn't get asked otherwise? and so that's part of the mix of who you want in your -- in your organization. and i think a centralized group can help you get to that goal. >> thank you. i know the time has expired, but thanks for interjecting a really unique idea. thank you, mr. chair. >> thank you. mr. cleaver.