I want to commend you and the Ranking Member for holding this hearing to examine TARP.
None of us wants to trivialize this situation, and so the issue of executive compensation is not to trivialize it all.
I appreciate the witnesses appearing today and look forward to hearing you.
It is important we hear from you, obviously, but our constituents also want to know what we believe about this.
It is literally infuriating.
this is infuriating to watch these decisions be completely conflictive of what we are looking at.
I am going to recommend that we try to set up some more frequent, even with our staffs necessarily, so there is a more ongoing relationship.
I think there is a danger here that we are debating the September debate.
I must say, you are always a spectacular witness.
I believe it is consumer protection.
Let me thank all of my colleagues, and I think you all understood we intended, obviously, at some time earlier to have this hearing a little...
This is the moment. This is the moment. We have been given, unfortunately, a moment.
I asked someone once, 'Why do you think it is that the world comes here?'
I strongly opposed the TARP bailout legislation because I believed Congress jumped right to a legislative solution without first identifying...
we had an interesting session on our side of the aisle, gathering today to listen to some of our new economic team under President Obama
I understand to be that you believe this ought to be a high-priority item for this Congress, the 111th Congress.
the issue of the subject matter of this hearing, the modernization of the U.S. financial regulatory system.
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