I think, especially in a slow news time, you know, it's not a big news time politically, but it's a precious moment for ...
Good point. Good point, Dr. Willis.
So I hear a glimmer of optimism. Good. Thank you very much.
This is like inverting that approach.
But let me ask, Mr. Davidson, is there really--do you have any doubt that the Government implicitly backstops the entire...
I do not even understand what it means to say that part of the target is to shrink it.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Ranking Member. I am glad you're having this hearing.
Well, one could argue, respectfully, that when you step into a market that has collapsed and offer funding into it, you ...
Every single player in the marketplace after 2008 now knows that.
Protect the taxpayers. Provide better incentives.
Fair enough, but let me just break in there, Mr. Davidson, just because I am going to run out of time.
And I think it was you, Mr. Davidson, who talked about with millions of mortgages in Fannie's or Freddie's--or whatever ...
I think we have a different response here.
As elected officials, every person on this dais feels a passionate responsibility to help our constituents, and we must ...
We are not going to forget about these cases.
People count on us to put laws in place that will protect our citizens from this sort of harm.
Why don't you know how many people have been killed from these drugs?
So we are only assuring patient safety in cases in which the State acts as well as the Federal Government acting. Is tha...