Director left. but then, in the final version, the one that was voted on and signed into law, congress said, no, we really don't want to do that. what we want to do is have it happen automatically, if the director's unavailable, it goes to the acting director. the reason for that, push that agency as far away from partisan politics as humanly possible. >> because the republicans are saying it needs more oversight. you're saying, essentially, well, you're saying that there's a reason it was set up the way it was, so it's not beholden to anybody on either political stripe? >> and you know, that'...