If we don't really, I think, turn the mortgage market, or build on the stability that you have helped provide...

If these results continue to be as Senator Menendez described, we will do more things legislatively, and hopefully they will be helpful.

I would think that the problem we would have is these funds would run out, not that there is no call on them.

We fought to ensure that if ordinary Americans who had done nothing wrong were going to pay for this stabilization effort, they would get to share in the benefits if companies became more profitable.

Am I glad that we had to spend this money? No. Do I share the anger and frustration that many Americans felt and continue to feel that Wall Street greed and regulatory neglect left taxpayers on the hook? Absolutely.

And yet that remains a nominal requirement for the Lone Wolf authority, doesn't it?

Thank you for your determined and passionate and very thoughtful advocacy in these areas.

It could be the butcher at the market, it could be somebody who knows them at work.

The other question in my time remaining has to do with the Lone Wolf provision which as has been indicated, has never been used.

I'm correct that there has never once been an adverse party that showed up in a 215 hearing. Not once.

What is the difference between what is required to prove that somebody is an agent of a foreign power?

I am concerned as I think some of the other senators and witnesses have been about the question of the presumption that certain things are relevant.

But he doesn't really have to be one?

Rather than continue to exist in a sort of fairyland in which a burden shifts to an empty chair and we all pretend to be satisfied with that set of procedures, we should maybe try to rethink how to do that in a more logical and sensible…

It's a pleasure, again, to be able to have the opportunity to discuss with you the safety and security of our Nation's biological research laboratories.

I hope today's hearing helps us to continue to identify the underlying issues and problems at the agency that led to this preventable travesty.

Thank you, Mr. Kotz, for an extraordinarily insightful and informative report.

This has been extraordinarily shocking to all of us and your report has been extremely helpful and useful.