Records requests that University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall filed with the University of Texas at Austin were the subject of hours of testimony during a legislative committee hearing this week, as witnesses discussed the volume and legality of the requests, as well as the motivation behind the requests. The House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations is mulling whether to file articles of impeachment against Hall, in part for the strain that he is accused of putting on UT-Austin’s staff. Barry Burgdorf, the former vice chancellor and general counsel for the University of Texas System, told the panel that some system regents' "clear intent" was to "get rid of" Bill Powers, the president of the University of Texas at Austin.