At a hearing in front of Congress, Joyce Barr, the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration and chief Freedom of Information Act officer for the agency, said that "the message is loud and clear" that Hillary Clinton's use of a private email address and server for official business was unacceptable. The senior official told the committee that "the actions that we’ve taken in the course of recovering these emails has made it very clear what the responsibilities are with regard to record-keeping."