mr. schroeder is a fairly knowledgeable man. the voters fail to reelect him. that needs to get out in the open. first of all, and mitch mcconnell, thank you for playing his speech because the three fundamentals is accountability. you cannot put a candidate that is an unelected aircraft -- bureau craft without the appropriations of congress deciding how to spend this money and watching how it is spent. there is no way this man should be approved just because he is a nice guy. i will refer your guest to indymac bank in california. they were closed down in march 2009. this is what this unelected bureaucrat will be in charge of, bank reopenings and restructurings. indymac got changed over. john paulson, george soros, $1.2 billion in 2010 off of indymac and one west bank. guest: as the budget is currently structured, it does not pull money from the general fund. it gets a percentage of the operating expenses of the federal reserve. right now, it gets about 10% of the federal reserve's operating expenses which is going to ratchet up in the next couple of years to ab