the President's budget zeroed it out.

Thank you very much.

We thank you for your appearance today and thank Senator Collins.

What about the pay parity issue?

What about answering the phone at the IRS? You reduced your performance goal from providing telephone assistance from 82 percent last year to 77 percent this year.

I think, until we get an honest approach that really results in substantial renegotiation of mortgages, that the real estate industry and the housing industry are going to continue to be weak.

I put in a bill to put the usury rates at 36 percent because I thought that was so high that we would be just fine.

if the argument can be made that the industry is paying your agency to do its job...

Well, I think a lot of questions have been raised.

I would like to ask a question or two.

Thank you, Administrator Mills.

How well is the CFTC able to measure the deterrent impact of these enforcement actions?

Federal agencies reported a total of $78 billion in Federal prime contract dollars went to small businesses in 2006.

Hope that you can respond to them on a timely basis and maybe by--we will leave the record open until Wednesday, June 24 at noon.

This is a matter of fundamental fairness and the deterrent effect, and people need to know that the U.S. Government is on the job.

It appears that over the years, as Senator Collins noted, we've allowed the number of professionals working there to decline in real terms.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided $375 million to stimulate lending in Small Business Administration loan programs.

I think every Member of Congress should be required to do their own tax return.

We will probably submit written questions, and if you can take a look at them and send us some replies on a timely basis, it would help us to do our work.

It has now cost over $400 million since work began almost 5 years ago. But it has only delivered only about 15 percent of the full capability intended.

Bernard Madoff was a wake-up call. The fact that this man could swindle as many people as he did with impunity for so long to me is nothing short of amazing.

I was glad the President announced the support for the concept of a Financial Product Safety Commission.

So you are a cash generator----

It is my feeling that the previous administration and, so far, this administration has failed to come up with an approach which is dramatically, could dramatically turn around this increasing number of mortgage foreclosures.

I just want to second Senator Durbin's concern in that area.