I don't believe it is regular order to have subcommittee consideration and then have 6 months go by and no committee consideration.

I appreciate the positions that you have taken, because you sit here and as you stand in your positions, you are basically the last wall, if you will, protecting the taxpayers from literally billions and billions and billions of additional…

I will say if you look at the procedures with regard to the Financial Reform Bill, there were more hearings, markups, amendments, recorded votes, and Floor time than any other bill I can remember.

But you didn't steal HOME money. I get that.

Yes, that is true if you do it right, but it is not true if you are in conspiracy with a co-conspirator outside.

I would like specific recommendations about what you think we should be doing to increase and enhance the oversight of the HOME Program.

As stated earlier, an effective Inspector General must be diligent and encouraging and at times insisting on strong oversight and transparency with any government.

I don't want to interrupt you. Are you finished?

I would have rather gone right to this panel. I think you gentlemen have more to offer to the things we really want to do than we just did.

we have spent an hour-and-a-half on a dog-and-pony sideshow that in my opinion, wasted the time of Congress

I believe that our side has been treated unfairly.