The reason I say this is that it reminded me, as one of those among us who had the opportunity t
o mentor under John Williams, who was for so long Mr. Public Accounts and Mr. Accountability, that one of his expressions
—I'll just pass it along, and I'm paraphrasing—was that this committee will know it has succeeded and has reached the proper level of performance when a deputy, upon receiving notification that there's a command performance in front of public accounts and that they are going to be held accountable.it should ruin their ent
...[+++]ire week. When you said it was a near-death experience, I was reminded that maybe we're getting closer to achieving Mr. Williams' target.