Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

To your knowledge, were all of the instances of infection in these three facilities self-reported by the facilities or did they come to you by virtue of the hotline?

Well, I know when I was on the western coast, they talked about wanting the U.S. Navy to make ports of call on that coast simply because the presence there sends a strong message.

I want to thank you for your commitment to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

I would really enjoy very much having that briefing, so let's make that happen.

We obviously can't pass laws that regulate production in China, but we have gateways, which are our ports, and we have a Commerce Department, and we have a CPSC.

I co-sponsored Senator DeMint's legislation dealing with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which I voted for, and Chairman Pryor spent a lot of time on, but it did have a lot of unintended consequences.

I think that the major model that we are using, AIG, is flawed, at its best.

Excessive compensation packages were indeed a contributing factor because incentives for short-term gains overwhelm the checks and balances.

We are all capitalists here, we believe strongly in the capitalistic system.

Excessive compensation has played some degree and some contributing factor to our financial situation.

I would like to see if you could give us comments on the derivatives and this sort of bias which is in the energy bill towards older homes, which needs to be rectified.

You know, my point is that older homes are more predominant in rural areas. So if this bias is not corrected, it would have a disproportionate impact in rural communities if there is not some other way of addressing this issue, direct…

I would like to get your response to is the treatment of derivatives markets.

This issue was created by overexuberant, overeager executives who were compensated for lack of performance.

I think that I can understand pay for performance, but for the life of me, I cannot understand pay without performance.

Giving the $168 million in bonuses and compensation of taxpayers' money to a failing company asking for a bailout was excessive.

I do not want any species to go away, but because of the mussels--fortunately, the good Lord gave us a lot of rain.