I have no objection to offshore drilling if it is done responsibly and if it is done where the oil companies already have leases.

the real estate market has dropped like a rock, and, therefore, a person's home is worth a lot less than a mortgage being underwater that much.

What do you do to control the regulators so that they are not working at cross purposes with what we are trying to do to restore the economy?

I would think that that would be a very important message for you to get out to all of these supervisors, that we ought to all be in the harness pulling in the same direction.

Well, what would be the difference between- let's say that we took a certain amount of the exemption...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Basically you said in response to the Chairman that in order to reduce the cost of Medicare over time so that the Federal Government can afford it, we are basically going to have to do significant improvements, No. 1, in the efficiency of…

Mr. Chairman, one more question, if I may.

So the newly confirmed Secretary of the Treasury is basically--it looks like he is going to have to take this course.

You`re here to stand up, to get your musket, to fix your bayonet and to charge into the ranks, you are my brother and sister in this fight.

And the problem is, the collapse of Chrysler, which I voted on years ago as a young Congressman, we had a Lee Iacocca who offered some leadership.

Was that accurate? They said there could be unless we signaled that we were going to do something, which we did.

I really don't know that that is true.

Let me go back a few weeks ago when we were told--we were all on a conference call on our Democratic Caucus with Paulson and Bernanke.

there are no Lee Iacoccas today. As a matter of fact, the way that they have conducted themselves over the years makes me doubt anything that they are saying.

Yes, it was when all this stuff started.

I had two goals as a person as I was sworn into Congress. One, to be a devoted full-time congressman who stood up for his constituents. And two, to be a devoted, full-time father.

I had two goals as a person as I was sworn into congress. One, to be a devoted full-time congressman who stood up for his constituents; and two, to be a devoted, full-time father.