It's up to the Treasury Department to take the report, review it carefully, understand the implications and use the report as a starting place for recommendations that we will make to the president,

[Nichols said the authors wrote the report after they left the Treasury Department last August.] This paper was not prepared at Treasury, by Treasury, or at the request of anyone at Treasury, ... It was prepared after the individuals in question went back to the private sector.

Until we know how the report has been viewed by the match review panel, we have no position,

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

I can assure you that we want to take this report and consider it very carefully and use that as a basis for future discussion to get the right pension provision for the country,

We really didn't understand the full implications of how this written and what it would do.