The difference is these are taxpayer entities, and we want taxpayer money to be returned to these taxpayer entities.
I think those are the tough decisions you have to make every day, and clearly those decisions keep coming.
I did listen to his entire testimony, and my interpretation was that he was suggesting that if Orange County made some b...
But you have attempted to establish that somehow what happened to Orange County should happen to these jurisdictions.
We want to make those who were taxpayer entities, local jurisdictions, be able to be made whole with TARP money.
So you, then, would not be opposed to having TARP moneys being spent to bail out Wall Street companies, but you have an ...
So you are really trying to suggest that their prudent activity was linked to Mr. Citron's very imprudent investment pol...
I feel it is highly inequitable to use TARP funding to shore up banks and to bail out failing corporations but fail to p...
If I could, we specifically don't deal with pension funds. So it is not our intention to see pension funds reimbursed.
If I recall correctly, the investments that were being made in Orange County would not be defined as prudent; is that co...
When you look at what we are asking for here, it is about $1.7 billion nationwide.
Restoring the value of these Lehman bonds is perhaps the fastest way to bring relief to communities across America.
The harm that is being caused to this Nation by not moving.
I am very worried about a potential serious accident.
There is indeed a dark side in this country, and that dark side really prefers to distort the issue.
I worry a great deal about the size of the foreign military footprint in Afghanistan.
I find that unacceptable.
California is far and away ahead of anyplace else in the country.
