After restructuring, no.

Yes or no, Mr. Secretary? Does the taxpayer have first dibs...

Does the taxpayer have first dibs on the $535 million----

I certainly share Senator Shelby's and others' concerns about this significant chance, rated at a 50-percent chance, that there will have to be a taxpayer bailout in the next year.

I would hope, if any did come before you, you would absolutely not subordinate the taxpayer.

Are you going to do the due diligence to go and find out who did that and hold them accountable?

There has to be transparency in what is going on here.

A number is all I ask for right now.

I disagree with the comment you made earlier, that a lot of these are redundant questions that are being asked.

I more share the concerns of another part of the Obama administration, in Treasury, where they said the Justice Department ought to be involved.

I strongly support an all-of-the-above energy policy.

Sir, you don't even know how many layers of casing go around a typical drill, so if the very top level doesn't know the very basics of the technology, why is it that you somehow feel you can insinuate yourself into the process?

Hydrofracking has been around for 60 years. The EPA took a look at it in 2005, found absolutely no problems with it.

Just to give you an idea of the impact that has had on us, we have had an increase of close to 58,000 jobs just in 2009 alone.

The point being that the aquifer, the water supply itself, is way up at the surface of the earth and all the activity where the hydrofracking fluid is, which, by the way, is 99.5 percent water and sand, is below the surface by about two…

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