company given a $535 million loan under the obama administration, just a slightly larger loan than what tesla received. no matter what solyndra's loan program followed in the footsteps of the advanced technology vehicles manufacturing loan program, it followed in that legislation passed by republican-controlled congress, which was signed into law by none other than george w. bush. that's the program solyndra was using. so essentially, then, the republican argument against clean energy loan programs is, if any -- if any of the investments ever fail, then the entire program is a failure. now, to the investor out there who has never made a losing investment, i salute you andim implore you to let me, the government and the whole rest of the world in on your secrets. yes, some investments succeed, and some investments fail. the most successful investor in history, warren buffett, has made investments that failed.