Mike Levin: “Does the Senator remember, as I do very vividly because I appeared before the Federal Financial Standards Board in the…”

“Does the Senator remember, as I do very vividly because I appeared before the Federal Financial Standards Board in the middle 1990s to support their independence, when they decided that you had to expense options, that it was compensation, that it had value like all other forms of compensation? Does the Senator remember what the Financial Accounting Standards Board decided when they left it optional, as to whether or not to either expense options or to show them as a footnote--just to disclose them without actually expensing them? Because if the Senator does not, I would like to read what the Financial Accounting Standards Board said about the pressure they were put under, the horrendous, horrific pressure they were put under, and how they could have, indeed, been put out of existence if they went forward with what they believed was right, which is what Warren Buffett says.”