Barney Frank: “Then rather than deal with it this way, I would have thought in the CR, you're telling me that the Republican…”

“Then rather than deal with it this way, I would have thought in the CR, you're telling me that the Republican Appropriations Committee majority funded some nonexistent positions. I would have some advice, Mr. Chairman, for the gentlewoman. Next time, don't do that and we won't have this problem. But there are some positions that they did fund that they would defund that still exist. And I understand they were in a hurry; so they forgot to mention all of them. They talked about climate change and they talked about health care. Here's the one they forgot to mention: The special master for TARP Executive Compensation, Department of the Treasury, that is the special master, whose job it is to monitor excessive compensation of those TARP recipients who got special assistance and still owe the Federal Government money. So what they want to do is knock out the person whose job it is to monitor compensation at AIG and at General Motors and at Chrysler and at Ally.”