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So you would support their termination if they were falsifying records?

So now you can't have it both ways, Mr. Slifer.

You're making a lot of difficult decisions that will make a lot of people angry.

I want you to report back to this committee within 30 days the action plan that you're going to have to address that.

What we're willing to do is if you'll make the tough decisions, we'll ask the tough questions and hold people accountable.

I need you to come back to this body within 30 days. I'm going to give you the same time.

FTA's lack of authority has been a contributor, yes.

It's a systematic fault of all the people involved in that process.

How many more people have to die before we get you to act in the appropriate manner?

But at some point you have to look at history and recognize history for what it is.

Thank you all for your interest in transparency, for your interest in this particular subject.

This is something we need to pursue. We need to make sure this bill gets done, gets passed, becomes law.

Prepare at least two questions that we can ask OMB, the IRS, and Department of Treasury when we have the follow-up hearing.

We would ask each of you to report to this committee, if you can, three recommendations on what you would like to see.

If we leave it up to a nonspecified, arbitrary fine and fee schedule, it's one thing to say, okay, a fee covers the cost of this particular thing and this is where we collect it and it goes, that's one issue.

That gets us half the way there with fees, fines, and settlement, doesn't it?

We're talking about $600 billion.

Congress needs to be held accountable for the way the agencies operate.