His reputation hangs in the balance, and I think that we've got Mr. Melson, the former ATF director, who clearly stated that he never said anything about these tactics to the Attorney General.

It is irresponsible to take that gavel to assume the grave responsibility of leading this committee and to wield the power to subpoena, the power to call and examine witnesses, the power to investigate like a political instrument.

I know we are out of time. But I just want to make sure that is my bill and Mrs. Maloney's bill.

The chairman has compared the Fast and Furious operation with Iran-Contra. This was a completely irresponsible comparison.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome, Dr. Bernanke.

To deprive you of the tools necessary to boost employment would be a huge mistake.

We hope that all of you, and the administration and like, will look for alternative ways to strengthen our economy.

You can do things at the same time, but if you undermine the fragile economy, as the IMF, as you indicated, has warned is being done with certain fiscal policies in Europe, that just creates an even bigger hole.

Failure to extend unemployment compensation for millions of Americans who are out of work through no fault of their own, whether failure to do that would be a drag on what is already very fragile economic growth.

We must use all the tools at our disposal to help put people back to work.

The measures taken by the Federal Reserve...averted 'an extraordinarily severe downturn, perhaps a great depression.'

We need to come up with a predictable, stable way to reduce our deficits and debt.

I want to be very clear; I do not want anyone to interpret me saying anything other than that this Congress has a very difficult and important job to address the long-term fiscal sustainability of our federal budget.

the question is not whether we should do that. The question is how we do that.

The Recovery Act helped save or create up to 3 million jobs in the year 2010.

The fact is that the CBO said that the Recovery Act helped save or create up to 3 million jobs in the year 2010.

It shows that the economy remains very fragile, it also shows that it is slowly recovering.

One trillion of that is accounted for by the tax cuts for the folks at the very top, and if you returned those tax rates to where they were during the Clinton administration, a period of great economic growth, that would be $1 trillion of…