entitled treasury slash ffb project or entitled project. have you seen this memo before? >> yes. >> okay. and why was the memorandum to file drafted almost one year after a call with d.o.e. -- i'm referring to the first paragraph of the memorandum that seems to be documenting a call a year earlier. >> staff member was directed to put it in final but did not. i find out about that a year later and asked it be put in final at that time. this is the same memo. it has not been changed since it was originally drafted. >> all right. so, your aide or assistant drafted the memo a year earlier. yet did not submit it or something? >> never got put into final for some reason. i felt i would rather explain this to you rather than explaining we might have backdated the memo. >> i appreciate that. i had things similar in my office where i had to accept staff members' goofups as my own. so, i feel for you. mr. burner, again, i'd like to address a few points made in the ffb memorandum to file relating to the treasury's call with -- i've got time. >> you got time. >> the memo that the ffb

. >> but they have not miss, doe has not missed a single payment to the ffb to date? >> no, sir. >> they have made all those payments. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back the balance of my time. >> gentleman yields back. and, there's no other members wishing to ask questions. so, i want to thank --. >> [inaudible]. >> so, mr. chair, or i ask unanimous consent that the contents of the document binder be introduced into the record and to authorize the staff to make appropriate redactions. >> no objections. >> no objection. so without objection the document will be entered into the record with any redactions that the staff deem appropriate. so at this time we thank you, ranking member and i thank you for your patience, for your dedication and your testimony here today. the committee rules provide that members have 10 days to submit additional questions for the record to the witnesses, and there already has been one member that has suggested there will be additional questions submitted to you. so we do appreciate your time, and we are adjourned. [inaudible conversations