I look forward to working together to ensure that the National Climate Service serves an important function in providing key climate information.

What is critically important to Virginia and the surrounding States is the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

I would hope that you would look at those States who have maybe gone before.

I look forward to working with you to guide an agenda that focuses on clean energy and climate technology.

As a new member of the committee and of the Senate, and if you have two minutes to kill, can you give us a little quickie overview of--I think I understand the jurisdiction of the Committee, but if you could explain it again and what you…

Mr. Chairman, I am happy to be on the Committee. I do not know if this shows that I drew the long straw or the short straw, but I am happy to be here.

I want to add my voice as well and say thank you for calling this hearing and echoing both what you and Senator Bennett have said.

It is not a prerequisite to finish the stress test before you----

the sooner we bite this bullet, the better in terms of trying to get some of these--particularly clean up the balance sheets and get these bad assets off.

They have risk, and hopefully we are going to, at the end of the day, come out relatively close to whole.

A pricing mechanism, basically.

I want to come back to this valuation issue, but I have got a couple of other questions first.

Too many folks still do not know that--at least Virginians feel that we have totally wasted all that first $350 billion.

I want to hear the testimony, as well, and get to the questions. I am just going to give you a heads up. I am going to come back to you on issues around transparency.

So actually making a risk assessment of the product, and then if the assessment was the product was too risky, then perhaps saying some universes of consumers might not be eligible to----

We had that situation last week in the Madoff hearing where we had both SEC and FINRA here, and, you know, asked very much suddenly, you know, on broker-dealers, if somebody says they were an investment adviser and FINRA is looking, they…

I think your question is right at the heart of it.

My concern is, Mr. Chairman, that we clearly need to do a better job of protecting the consumer.