Thank you, Chair
Thank you, Mr. Hartle, for being here with us today. I appreciated your testimony, and I also read the article very carefully this morning.
In your testimony, I think you said—and I just want to clarify this—that there is no governing act around this component. We've definitely heard that from other sources as well. I guess I just want a little bit of clarity. You said during your interview that the auditors could not contact the businesses but had to give questions to the government, and there was a whole.... It sounds like quite a complex process. I'm wondering if there is any connection between that process and the fact that there is no governing act.