"Even in regard to transparency and in this specific issue of large contingency fees to campaign contributors? You would rather the Congress be hands-off there and allow each state to make those decisi..."
"Ms. Greenberg, you might want to be next on this."
"Eventually the people who fall for scams like the Federal grant scams, the 'get rich quick' schemes... don't realize they've been taken advantage of until it's too late."
"I do believe they do that."
"Scammers are using the economic downturn to prey upon those who have been most affected."
"Mr. Vladeck, was the FTC involved with the Postal Service in that specific incident?"
"The Federal Trade Commission is actively working to catch these criminals."
"I do believe that this creates an opportunity for abuse."
"We have families that we love, that we need to take care of, just as you do."
"This issue is hard only because we make it so."
"We believe that the government ought to support the role of marriage in our society."
"I do encourage that this bill will be defeated."
"I hope that doesn't come as a great surprise to you."
"America is not, as my colleague has said, a theocratic society."
"It's to right wrongs. It's to right injustices."
"There needs to be a principle established of equal rights for equal representation and equal service."
"This bill promises equal treatment, but I believe that it has created an elitism."
"This sets aside same-sex couples as an elite class, and those same benefits would be denied to opposite-sexed couples who choose not to marry."
