We understood that the backlog has been there forever, from many people's point of view, whatever the reasons. I'm not about to address those reasons. The shocking thing for people is that this is in a budget bill. People are asking why in the world they have piled all of the different things in there. Was there ever a plan to put forward legislation directly on this so that it could have gone to the proper committee to be looked into, as opposed to a budget bill?
On May 28th, 2012. See this statement in context.