"I applaud the Administration for displaying its commitment to health reform."
"This is a critical point. It is not happening. It has not happened. I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel on this issue."
"What do they--they need to have confidence that this is going to open up."
"I would encourage you to take a look as you look at TARP."
"Something isn't happening that should be happening. This weekend I met with 10 businesspeople from my district--all of them solid businesspeople, all of them good numbers, good business acumen."
"They can't get into the banks. They cannot get to the banks. There is something wrong."
"Our State can't sustain the trend, Mr. Secretary. It cannot."
"Families like this army sergeant are all over America waiting for their lender or servicer to strike an agreement."
"When this deal is approved... do we really believe that this new corporate Goliath will do what is in the best interest of consumers?"
"Real music and sports fans deserve the right to see their favorite bands and their teams without a greedy middleman."
"To even imply that the Senate committee and the House committee are irrelevant to the task of examining this merger, first of all, is wrong and, second of all, we should all think about what our respo..."
"I was moved to act on this issue by the appeal of over 1,000 average Americans who felt they got a rotten deal and just wanted to know the truth, which is why I wrote to the Federal Trade Commission a..."
"I want to thank you and I want to thank our Ranking Member, Mr. Coble, my neighbor, and Members of the Committee for this critical hearing and allowing me to testify before the Subcommittee about the ..."
"TicketMaster should immediately sell TicketsNow and end this obvious conflict of interest."
"The heart of this issue is the average American out there, the person who works longer and longer hours for less and less, the person who scrimps and saves for months to maybe buy a couple of tickets ..."
"This isn't just a little bad PR, this is quite simply a bad deal for the American people."
"I want to commend you and the administration for taking the housing crisis seriously and developing a proposal that I think lays the foundation for some real relief to American families."
"I said then that we were going to have a tsunami of foreclosures, and the administration basically said I was an alarmist."
