So again, I just want to be clear. When you talk about a total number of TARP repayment, this is not included.

We are facing the worst post-recession recovery in the history of our country.

I do agree with Senator Snowe, although we disagree about other aspects of the bill before us, that giving some long-term stability and relief in the tax code is important.

People cannot wait. There have been too many faulty assumptions and miscalculations, and regrettably, the burden of which has now been borne by so many unemployed people.

Go down to Main Street and ask them what they are talking about.

How could they forget this document? This is the document--and it's a legal counsel opinion that basically says you can ignore the law.

Mr. Chairman, I do have a point of information, because I did ask, and I got an answer from the head of the loan program...

I mean, if you're concerned that somebody-- please don't comply with the law, and then you don't hear back from them...

Mary Miller is involved in an email where she says, I may be on a call tomorrow morning about the Solyndra loan restructuring.

You were telling them they should consult with the Department of Justice.

you specifically said you can't subordinate the taxpayer unless you got some approval from the Department of Justice.

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I thank you for continuing to help us shine light on what is a major scandal...

This isn't about the press or you know Republicans and Democrats. There's $535 million of taxpayer money at stake.

If I log on my phone, I register my phone, I pull it out of the box and I register it, it says hey, I am Bill Cassidy, I am da-da-da...

Now, would this data be, could this data be or is this data, when it is connected, is it collated, correlated, da-da-da dated, in order to further target me in a more sophisticated fashion?

I just want, again for the record, to be very clear to start with the number that you just gave, Administrator, that it was $7.3 billion that FEMA used last fiscal year; is that correct?

Is there any chance that the number that we are working on now will go down?

But after the fiscal year, no. We would have to go back into immediate needs funding to be able to continue providing individual assistance.