GSA warned to change its ways Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee holding the second of four congressional hearings into a lavish General Services Administration conference, questioned Tuesday whether the agency should exist. During fiery opening remarks, Denham trained his sights on rampant spending within the agency, spiraling conference budgets, and GSA's reluctance to disclose its full budget, which he had requested in the past. Former Government Services Administration head Martha Johnson testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill on Monday. Chip Somodevilla - GETTY IMAGES "If this continues to go on, you continue this kind of spending we will continue to audit," Denham said. I am prepared to systematically pull apart GSA to the point I'll question whether GSA is needed at all. Alison Doone, GSA's chief financial officer said the agency has consolidated all regional budgets under her purview as a response to rapidly increasing conference budgets. Jeffrey Neely, the acting Region 9 commissioner, who invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during testimony Monday, was not present. "The only way we'll be able to see him is on a video in a hot tub," said Rep. John Mica, chairman of the full House and Transportation Committee, noting images of Neely resting in a hot tub at a Las Vegas hotel suite. Concerns over Neely's travel were brought to the attention of GSA Administrator Martha N. Johnson last year, but that did not prevent further trips, said the agency's deputy director Susan Brita. Johnson resigned before the Inspector General Brian Miller's scathing report on the spending scandal. When Brita learned of a 17-day south Pacific trip paid by tax dollars, she alerted Johnson, Brita said. She is credited in Miller's report for her actions concerning the conference and spending. Neely took so many trips that Miller told his immediate boss, Ruth Cox, commissioner of the Pacific Rim region, that she needed get better control of him. The House subcommittee that oversees public buildings detailed trips to Atlanta, Hawaii and Napa Valley, Calif. The 2010 training conference at the center of the GSA scandal cost more than $800,000.