I believe all conservation programs should create positive incentives to protect species and above all should hold the rights of private lan...
I support adequate funding for the Partners Program, but I am concerned that the funding Congress provides may be controlled by a political ...
My concern is if something is working real well, I don't want to change it.
The Partners Program demonstrates that conservation, oil and gas development, and agriculture are not mutually exclusive.
I just don't like the idea that the Partnership Program, which is working so well, is being used for a different agenda.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The tone set by that, if I worked for Goldman Sachs, I would be real worried that somebody has made a decision that he is going to be a whip...
No institution should be too big to fail or have to burden the public with the cost of its failure or being saved.
$700 billion got allocated of taxpayer money to solve systemic risk problems, of which you were the beneficiary both directly and indirectly...
The answer to that is absolutely no. Nobody is going to believe they have the capability to do that.
their existing function is they take over and immediately sell the assets and they don't run things, correct?
Systemic risk and the fact that it was there created the necessary program for us to eliminate that systemic risk.
I think 90 percent of the problems associated with the meltdown in our mortgage system and the financial crisis sits on the lap of Congress.
The option in the Dodd bill is to tax you so that we can have a fund, and I have real problems with how that fund is managed.
I don't think we have gotten there.
we are going to give a Federal bureaucracy the ability--who has never had any experience--to come in and run a company like Goldman Sachs
Does it concern you at all that his position is that, in his own self-evaluation, which Senator Levin referred to, that he was taking positi...
Looking backwards at Abacus, would you feel that the system worked for Abacus? Do you think there is any ethical question that can be raised...
