Mike Johanns said...

There is not much limitation under the law. You can request up to 12 percent of the Federal Reserve's operating budget, ...

We should be darn sure about what we are doing, because it could have some economic consequences.

The budget request you are making this year admittedly is sizeable. I appreciate you are a little bit different circumst...

It is systemic. It is cultural. It is people have just adopted this mode of operation as the way of doing business.