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I will commit to working with our interagency partners on this issue. I recognize the importance of maintaining access to these foreign markets for our U.S. companies.

I personally want to congratulate you for being willing to do it and to tell you how much I appreciate it.

How stupid can you be?

As the author of Hatch-Waxman, I want it to be perfect for the agency and for our country.

I am absolutely convinced that you will stop some of the things that are wrong in the agency and outside of the agency.

I want to commend you for your attitude because there should be no question about your being selected here.

Should the American people not be concerned that your agency can spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year, employ 1,500 Federal bureaucrats who have the power to directly impact the personal finances of every single American, and…

The ability--you have to understand that what the Bureau does actually affects the ability of the American people to get access to credit to be able to go out and achieve their dreams.

I appreciate the testimony of all of you here today.

I have issued you a subpoena.

The Department of Justice just does not get to hide things from the United States Congress.

The only way we can protect them is actually have somebody looking over the shoulder to make sure they're telling the truth.

You've got to make a personal decision: Which is more important?

That's not how America works. That's not how Congress works. We're accountable to the people of the United States of America.

We want all of that information. If you're not going to give it to me, tell me, because I'll just sign a subpoena.

I shouldn't have to do that. You should provide that material and not go ask some, you know, desk jockey...

I want straight talk from you. Are you or are you not going to provide that to us?

Congress has a right to have this material it, and it is unbelievable to me that you think that we shouldn't have a copy of it.