The Department of Education's position will be that it will be on the side of ensuring that every single child... will have the appropriate technology.

I am preparing to go the legal route, based upon historical precedence, to ensure that every single child... has access.

I wish I could bring this to your attention so that you could please try your best, consistent with the plan that we have been following at least for the last 10 years in the committee.

Illinois is currently ranked the third highest recipient of LIHEAP funds, and my district continues to be the largest recipient of LIHEAP.

And you have got to have the resources to do that and the technology to keep them.

I cannot resist, but having a head of the Office of Financial Research would be very useful to FSOC.

I think our record... has been kind of spotty on that, that the nature of agencies are to always--power, prestige, and sometimes money is directly related to the volume of regulations put out.

I think this is not just a challenge with your agency, but just the nature of the beast is that you always are additive.

I think your very appropriate closing comments about private profit and socialized loss is critically important.

I might just add on this point that I remember a conversation we had about the fact that you were concerned whether we had the technological capabilities to sort through this.

there is an extraordinarily important public purpose that the SEC serves about that question of confidence in the markets

We think about what is less predictable than running an enterprise the size of the Federal Government...

I think it is great to see Chairman Schapiro.

the fees, since they are paid by people who receive the SEC services, this does not affect the deficit in any way.

everything has to be on the table and how can we become more effective at every dollar we spend

There really is a challenge here around investor confidence, and we have got the challenges from the crisis in 2008.

I would hope that you will continue to be diligent in making sure that becomes an important tool and kind of an early warning system for future crises.

I would commend you to look at this idea, this regulatory pay-go idea, before people say, oh my gosh, that would be impossible to do.