contracting authority was moved from the ra to the regional commissioners and that was the change under paul prouty. should i have changed that back? i believe it's something we should have reviewed thoroughly. it had been in place for a couple years. frankly, there were so many other things that we were undertaking. it wasn't at the top of my list. perhaps it should have been. >> look what 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 devolv