Jeff Merkley

I believe that that Act, if you think of the three components, investment, trade, and sales of equipment, that of those three, the Act only addresses investments.

The loopholes limited the impact of U.S. sanctions, but the biggest hole is the lack of multilateral action.

Is there research on that? This was an interesting article, but is there research yet on that type of changes in elementary schools as it might impact obesity or also impact academic performance?

Can I give one question to follow up on that?

So in your testimony, there are many, many items that are mentioned ranging from a compound found in Teflon to epoxy resin, coatings of canned foods, polycarbonate tableware, food storage containers, water bottles, baby bottles.

And I wanted to turn, Dr. Birnbaum, to lead.

Then does that example pretty much stand by itself, or are there dozens of examples of that nature, or a few more that are significant that you want to mention?

Thank you for your testimony.

I simply associate myself with the comments of the distinguished Chair and the Republican leader and hope that we can get right to the testimony.

Sun Microsystems would like to thank you for sponsoring S. 1584, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009 (ENDA).

We have urged Treasury in our recommendations to reconsider its allocation of its resources to deal with the toxic assets.

Actually, there was another $25 billion pledged, and that is in your own testimony, for the making--no, it is not.

We have yet to spend a dime that actually helped a homeowner yet.

We are facing--reported yesterday an anticipated seven million additional homes going onto the market through foreclosures----

Right now, the GAO reports that very little money has been spent to assist homeowners.

We know people don't want to wait months and months to get their modification.

I think probably all of us have been--having great difficulty accessing the modification programs.

Why has it taken, with home ownership, so many millions of our Nation's families struggling, why has it taken so long to fill such a critical----

I was a strong critic of the TARP program, and in January, I was asked what I thought should be done to improve it and I said, we need to spend an enormous amount of effort assisting homeowners in this Nation.

One of the issues that came up in the Madoff situation is about the firm's auditor.

Another challenge, and I think it was referred to by Senator Schumer, is that folks might come to your organization looking down the road and seeing the possibility of much higher-paying jobs in private industry, the same industry that…

I think the SEC's incompetent examinations actually greatly served Mr.

I just simply can't accept that it is simply a case of inexperience or a case of resources.

I appreciate your report very much and the series of recommendations.

Does this raise serious questions about the type of training that the investigators receive?