Finally, you know, my understanding is that the Department's 5-year OCS drilling plan does not consider the potential economic impact on a State's tourism industry, for example or its fishing industry.

You often talked about the energy moon shot as one of the things that you hoped to be able to achieve. I think that is desirable.

You have got to quantify this risk. You have to tell us what is the level of the systemic risk.

This is an area that I share Chairman Bernanke's comments about being angry.

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 of underfunding those liabilities.

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?

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.

I think the housing plan that you and Tim Geithner and, of course, the President put together is really a home run.

Many, many servicers have agreed to start refinancing the mortgages and they feel they are protected by the guidance that you have issued.

The real block, in my opinion, has been the servicers and the bond holders.

To suggest, as one or several commentators have, that this problem was created, and I quote, by 'deadbeats with an extra bathroom' is not only insulting and infuriating, but to the families who are suffering right now, it is tremendously…