"Now, these are necessary and non-negotiable costs that we all want to encourage health plans to incur..."
"I appreciate very much the opportunity to address that point."
"I believe we are totally cooperative with all the interviews they have requested and all of their written questions."
"Congress also required that Treasury prohibit golden parachutes, or exorbitant departure payments, to senior executives."
"Okay. And that is what we want, because these are companies that we need to succeed not only because they are employing the middle class people that work there, but also because we need to get back ou..."
"So, in essence, their reward is the success of the company that they are running."
"One thing that we have talked about is the elimination of bonuses as executive compensation, the elimination of golden parachutes as executive compensation."
"What I want to know, what I really want to establish here is this the oversight panel, and the thing that I really care about is whether the law is being followed."
"We held our noses because it cost so much money, so much federal taxpayer money indebted us so deeply to do that, but it turned out to be a good gamble because we have recovered, as Ms. Geoghegan has ..."
"Well, I think it is fairly clear that Treasury has upheld the law that Congress passed on limiting executive compensation of companies receiving assistance from TARP."
"Like most Americans, I was troubled to learn how the structure of compensation packages on Wall Street helped to create incentives for taking the unnecessary and excessive risks that led to the financ..."
"I want to welcome Representative Beto O'Rourke, who represents a district along the U.S.-Mexico border and knows first-hand the importance of border security"
"We know that there are 1,993 miles of border, 651 miles of fencing."
"I certainly adhere to the issue of outcomes."
"I think it is a moving process."
"One might make the argument that the un-fenced area is less secure. I would argue against that."
"In other words, our efforts to secure our borders will always be a work in progress."
"For that reason, we must not tie comprehensive immigration reform to achieving some arbitrary standard of border security."
