"We don't have the greatest office in the world," said Donnie Duncan, the senior associate commissioner.

"We'd reached the point where we had something we wanted to share," said Deborah P. Klein, an associate commissioner.

In 1993, he was assigned as associate commissioner of SEC.

The associate commissioner reportedly earns some $99,028 per year after gaining 26 years of service with the organization.

William K. Hubbard, an associate commissioner, said in a letter that it was evaluating the "legal and scientific" issues.

"This is one of the better stables in the city," said Steve Matthews, an associate commissioner.

In 2003 he joined the Big 12 as senior associate commissioner and chief operating officer.

The associate commissioner of the INS struck him as a man who spent his spare time working algebra problems.

"We were operating on the same tracks," one of the two officials, John M. Taylor, an associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, said.

"Those particular homes that provide treatment, we would in fact license them," said Neil Grogin, an associate commissioner at the state agency.