John Ensign: “I think part of this hearing is to find out whether you were actually market manipulators instead of just market makers.”

We have to understand that small businesses do create jobs, and we are going to hurt job creation.

It is much easier to get re-elected when you are giving money away, basically.

The House bill needs to be the floor for what we accomplish out of this process. The House bill isn't nearly enough, and we cannot allow this process to capture a modest improvement in the name of compromise by watering it down to a…

This is a very important hearing today and I want to thank all of our witnesses who have taken the time out of their schedules to testify.