Fun fact: to prove just how much compressed air you have in your lungs, a test that a beginning diver must pass is to do just that, except he must exhale all the way from 33 feet to the surface--in one exhale. Nobody believes it, but Boyle's Law don't lie.
Nearly 200 institutions participating in a TARP program supposedly aimed at healthy, viable institutions have skipped dividend payments to the government, costing the Treasury Department an estimated $506.2 million, according to Romero's report.
The recoupment provision requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to submit a report on TARP's financial status to Congress five years after its enactment. If TARP has not been able to recoup its outlays through the sale of the assets, the Act requires the President to submit a plan to Congress to recoup the losses from the financial industry.