Our goal was to look at whether or not treatment and prevention should be priorities rather than simply punishment, and they are.

I particularly want to thank the chairman for holding these hearings that are clearly of importance to all of us in the National Capital Region, especially those who live in the District of Columbia.

If you could get it back to the committee for the record, that would be very helpful because we need to look at the scope of the problem.

I had an experience locally, here at the Lorton Prisonsite that was transferred to Fairfax County.

It sounds to me like this may be one of those areas that needs to be clarified in the law.

I have to tell you, folks in my State... would call, and they would then get a basic response that said, 'Well, thanks, but we do not have any of the details ready.'

I just want to get a little further confirmation on that as well.

We were concerned with the fact that 100 percent pay-off on the counterparties with AIG, no haircut taken.

I can tell you, at least, again, in my State, an awful lot of folks think that we have taken these funds and basically either thrown them into the wind or flushed them down the toilet.

I would like to see some of the upside here.

I think the Chairman has raised a good point about perhaps an ombudsman, some kind of appeals or process so that if you cannot get answers, a Web site alone may not be enough.

Well, Mr. Allison, I hope that would be the case. My only hesitancy--and it is one of the reasons why we actually put forward legislation, which I, again, would love to not have the need for--is that we have heard that response from every…

the status of all of the investments we have made with the TARP program.

As we think about a repayment pattern from the financial institutions that receive TARP funds, we know they want to pay back these dollars.

I am just afraid that we may have, in a sense, a false sense of progress because there are people in arrears.

I would love to know how many of those offers have been accepted.

I want to follow up on Senator Brownback's comments, and one, echoing my other colleagues' concerns about the real human effects these decisions have had upon your dealer networks and their employees and families across the country.

if I would have ever thought in my business life that I would see a group of Senators trying to micro-manage the workings of American industry like GM and Chrysler, I would have said, 'It never could happen.'