The Department of Energy has processed about 6 compensation of the subtitle D cases and found almost--almost--90 percent of those processed cases to be ineligible.

Congress should not invest any longer in a failing program.

Thank you, Chairman Grassley. We appreciate your testimony.

In February of this year, Secretary Abraham testified before this committee and told me that by August the Department of Energy was going to process 100 claims per week.

We can make progress.

We are not having any problems with the Labor Department payout.

But GAO says I am right.

It was for that reason that the AFL-CIO was supportive of the Grassley-Murkowski amendment as indeed the first step in at least trying to alleviate some of this claims-handling process.

DOE has not, I say has not, identified a willing payor.

We thought we had done that.

we have to do something different than what we are doing, because they are obviously adversaries of those filing claims