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I'm all about commerce, and I realize that it is always in somebody's backyard, so I don't know that I have a whole lot of sympathy about it not being in my backyard.

I have a real concern that the intent of Congress is being overwritten with the private activity bond measure here.

Would you agree that this does not qualify under number 11 on the statute 26 U.S.C. Code. It is not a high-speed rail project. Is that correct?

Affordable housing has risen to the top. It should have been at the top all along.

This is a good idea to make our hearing platform available to colleagues.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

This legislation would save taxpayer money and bring needed accountability to the Federal agencies.

I guess this is, what, the 40th anniversary of your authorization, but also the 40th anniversary of civil service initiatives that, quite frankly, sometimes hamper and hurt your ability to get jobs done...

What would be wrong with putting the responsibility in the Office of the Secretary of Defense... and saying to the Secretary of Defense: You have the responsibility for accountability.

Why do we in Congress keep increasing the budget? I am all for the warfighter. He or she deserves whatever we can give them.

If CEOs would only go into their own phone system, they would change it immediately.

I found the vast majority, in fact, the overwhelming majority of them want to just serve this country and do their job.

I want to thank my vice-chair for his eloquent opening remarks and questioning and pitch hitting.

I am one of those people who firmly believe that access to capital and liquidity are probably the lifeblood of a stable and vibrant flow of commerce.

Because of regulatory overreach consumers are not getting the loans they need, including the kinds of loans his family relied upon to live in a mobile home back in the 1970s and 1980s.

So thank you for being in charge of an agency in the administrative branch and try to tell us to make you more accountable. I appreciate your service.

If I could come out with this enormous, this horrible story about how you have destroyed a business or somebody else's personal life back in my State, you would just tell me to pound sand if that is something you wanted to do, right?

Yes, so it makes me wonder whether or not some people are just laying the predicate to nationalize our financial--our banking institution here, and they are willing to have some of these victims just lie along the path to their end goal.