On the recordFebruary 14, 2013
I yield myself the remainder of the time. First of all, the questions which have been asked of us to provide materials of the nominee have fallen into three categories: The first one is to the White House about Benghazi, and those questions have been answered. There have been requests for Senator Hagel's speeches, and those speeches have been provided. Relative to financial disclosure, additional financial disclosure, disclosure which is required by the rules, that has been provided. The statement that was made by one of our colleagues about Corsair Capital is a statement which, frankly, is out of bounds. It is inappropriate for anyone to be asked about that when he is an adviser to a perfectly legitimate equity fund and has perfectly legitimate members on the board. There is no evidence--and the person making the innuendo acknowledged that there is no evidence--that the funding came from Saudi Arabia, Iran, or any other inappropriate place. So as for the information that has been provided, it is probably more information than probably any nominee--at least in recent memory--has had to provide. We have done everything we possibly can.…
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