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Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding, for his kind words, for his leadership, and more importantly, for his friendship. Mr. Speaker, I wish to also thank the staff of the Financial Services Committee in the work they have taken…

So thank you for being in charge of an agency in the administrative branch and try to tell us to make you more accountable. I appreciate your service.

One of the real victims that we do not talk about with all this regulatory overreach are the people who are not getting loans, who are not getting capital.

We have heard testimony here. No one has said there is massive individual fraud going on because people are gaming the system in terms of their income, reported income.

If you could do that from an intellectual standpoint. Are you willing to do that and get to the committee?

What I need from you is really a plan, and I will give you, is 45 days enough to come up with a plan on how we can date specific look at how you are going to implement and improve that quality.

And so, at times where sometimes one program looks ideologically to be aligned more with one side than the other, I can assure you in a bipartisan manner, we are willing to tackle those.

Collect it. I mean, it is the American taxpayers' dollars.

I concur with the ranking member, and so I would ask within 60 days if you can come back to this committee with a plan to do that.

This committee is committed to addressing this issue and working with the executive branch to do so and with our friends at GAO to develop methodologies to better capture the nature of the problem.

And I for one would be willing to commit that every one of those dollars we, in fact, recover I would devote to debt reduction because they are dollars we do not have now.

I think what we need right now is an individual that can bond those great diplomats within the State Department while carrying out the message of this administration's policies abroad.

If that is the case, let me--my time is limited--if that is the case, if this is duplicative, if the work of the Coastal Resilience Center really is not needed, then you need to document that.

In my opinion, Facebook is here to stay, and so you have an obligation to protect the data that you collect and the data that you use.

We can do better than that, Mr. Zuckerberg. We certainly can.