I didn't believe that yours did.

I don't know why we would divert resources, time, energy, and people power to actually going forward with that.

I'm concerned--and I'm just picking up where Congressman Fry left off on the State of morale at the FTC since you began your tenure.

Do you believe that's your job?

I wanted to talk about unpaid consultants for a moment, which the Office of the Inspector General--this was not me saying this; the Inspector General said this--labeled as, quote, 'unprecedented.'

When you have a Federal agency, whether it is the FBI or the FTC, that comes calling at your front door, and they say gosh maybe you should be doing things a little bit differently, they pay attention.

I agree.

The barriers to entry that have been built here in Washington, DC, over the last few decades are significant.

If it is so good for us--and I am--it is a sincere question--why don't we just open the country up completely?

I am asking you as a person, as a human being, sitting next to Mr. Rosenberg, is it good, should we--or is it a waste of time when all these people who wait for years, good, hardworking people that want the dream of the shining city on the…

We have a lot of concerns from the Republican side, and that the agency is being politicized.