170 billion in as you say, but they re now asking for $15 billion more to cover losses just in the last quarter. i actually introduced this bill on christmas, during the christmas break when the white house announced that an unlimited bailout of fannie and freddie back in 2009 and introduced it again in march and with this latest announcement of not only that they pay that $35 million to the top six executives that you mentioned but they also want to give them $13 million in bonuses. which is just obscene. jenna: if i could, congressman, this argument has been made for fannie and freddie going back years and years, not just right now, if you don t highly compensate the individuals that are running these enterprises then they will not be competitive. then the taxpayers will miss out because they re not going to be managed appropriately. what is your response to that? oh, the government has never had problems hiring.