Yes, absolutely.
the government's response to date has served to increase confusion in the marketplace rather than to restore order.
too big to fail has failed.
heads we win; tails the taxpayer loses.
My constituents and, indeed, most Americans, find this situation intolerable.
Basically, I mean, you are saying we should treat them the same way we do banks across the rest of the country.
Do you believe we still have a solvency problem today?
You don't believe this will tank further the United States economy at this point in time?
the idea of what we have pursued, that too-big-to-fail has failed.
And we can do this and the ATM still works when people step up to the ATM, or the credit card still functions across the...
My hope is that there will be other members and groups looking in and tuning in to this, because we have got a huge prob...
I just want to make sure that we are on this point, that this isn't further disruption in a weakened economy that we alr...
And this is even with all the money that the Federal Government has put into these big banks, we still have a solvency p...
Do you believe it is the route out for the U.S. economy at this point in time?
we need to allow a means for allowing big institutions to fail and a system where you could do that.
I was noting--one of the staff members was saying to me that the historical experience has been that the faster and deep...
the very last thing that we want to do is raise taxes on American businesses and introduce uncertainty into employers' p...
This is precisely the wrong time to raise taxes and inject uncertainty about what taxes are going to be in the future.
