Well, that's an interesting issue. You know, obviously, Secretary Geithner had great problems complying with his certification 4 years in a row. He swore that he would pay the tax that was shown on the form, and he certified, if they would…

Well, I appreciate my friend for yielding, but I want to follow up on that very point. We're told that there is going to be a financial ``reform'' bill that sounds more like a financial ``deform'' bill. All these reforms end up being…

So perhaps that was the thinking, that this is somebody who would be an expert in not paying taxes. Maybe that's who we want in charge of the tax entity, the IRS. It's an interesting point. It still cuts to my core to think that the land…

With regard to the financial deform package that apparently is going to be coming to the House, is the gentleman aware of whether or not these two entities, Fannie and Freddie, that kicked us into the spiral downward in the fall of '08…

Well, if we go back to the day that the Wall Street bailout passed, that first week in October of 2008, I made the statement that when the Federal Government buys private assets and holds them in order to try to make money, or the Federal…

Well, yes, it would certainly appear that that's exactly right. If the MMS of this administration will not produce the records to show exactly what testing was done and exactly what the results were, which should be public record for…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 11 o'clock and 29 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at 10 a.m. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend from Florida, his discussion about energy. It's certainly a timely topic. I think we're all pretty upset with what BP has done. We heard the President point out that we're not going to have any…

Madam Speaker, it has been an interesting week. It's been an interesting time. And there are things that we agree on between our parties. I heard my friends across the aisle talking about we need to have an audit of the Federal Reserve…

Well, thank you. One of the other things that comes to mind is we talk about our freedoms--about the ability to assemble and about the freedom of speech, which is the ability to say what is in your heart. {time} 2220 We come to what…

I thank my friend for yielding. Steve Forbes was up here on the Hill a couple of weeks ago. One of his comments was that we could do a complete repeal, and at the same time we could put some fixes in there that Republicans had been…