I applaud your last line of questioning and believe that you have really touched on something that is absolutely essential.

The SEC never received any increased or dedicated funding to carry out these new responsibilities.

So we need legislative authority to craft a program that will allow us to give whistleblowers more meaningful recovery on their claims.

I am going to try to ensure that the financial reform bill that passes...does not take these agencies...outside of the annual appropriations process.

I'm also very interested to learn more about the FTC's efforts to address anticompetitive pay-for-delay patent settlements, which keep lower-cost generic drugs off the market and cost consumers and taxpayers billions of dollars.

The growth of FTC's staff and budget reflects a rapidly evolving and sophisticated marketplace.

Chairman Gensler, this whole conversation we are having about the future of derivatives, what will be regulated, what will not be regulated, what is standard, what will be custom.

After the embarrassment of Bernie Madoff, this inspector general report about your whistleblower program is troubling to me.

What kind of challenges does this present to your agency to have this kind of mix which is moving toward much different objects that are at the soul and heart of the futures trading markets?

If there was another shipment of drywall being manufactured in China for export to the United States, would it be subject to testing for this hydrogen sulfide?

After 3,000 complaints, we knew we had a problem.

Recent research has questioned whether Triclosan...may disrupt the body's endocrine system.

We want tracking labels so that we know the company and the area of China in which the drywall was manufactured.

I'm pleased to welcome Chairman Inez Tenenbaum, the ninth Chairman of the Consumer Products Safety Commission.

It is interesting that they have decided rather than to fight us, to basically say if you want our people, we will train more of them.

So, Director Berry, the President asked us to give you $5 million for wellness, for pilot programs to deal with smoking cessation, disease management, and the like.

The last major hurdle that we are trying to defeat right now is management intransigence.

I am with you 110 percent, and I hope to God by next year, we are going to be able to move the needle for you.