Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Thank you, Chairman."

"And you have an account that allows you to pay the scientists and the folks who are doing the work in the meantime so that they are not carrying the cost of the government study?"

"Without BP paying for it at that point since they are not agreed. What sources of funding do you have?"

"I would like to discuss the IRS information that shows the top 400 income earners in the country who earned over a quarter of a billion dollars each actually paid taxes of 18.2 percent."