Robert Menendez actually said...

"it is just a recipe of throwing more money in a process in which we don't have a quantifiable baseline to determine where we should be going."

"Well, it seems to me that there is a real risk here that we are, by Federal money, providing AIG with the wherewithal to unfairly compete in this marketplace, and at the same time inheriting the risk ..."

"I mean, how can you keep coming back and asking for monies in which you cannot quantify for us the systemic risk and the assets here?"

"But shouldn't we be putting AIG through the same stress test that we are talking about in terms of financial institutions?"