I think we're going to have to start talking more realistically about what those timelines are and calm people down.

I do have a good deal of empathy for that area of Florida for the fact that they have lost ships due to retirement.

I don't believe, quite frankly, that the DOD budget should be sacrosanct when it comes to looking at the constraints and the examinations that we ought to be putting on different programs.

I made it very clear at that time that this survey was going to be vital in terms of evaluating whether we should move forward on this law.

That's not the military I grew up in. That's not the military you and I served in, Admiral.

This is obviously quite an emotional issue, but it's also a legislative issue.

What we're looking for here is an examination of the present law, what is the most damaging aspect of the present policy?

I salute both of you for very careful statements.

it has come to my attention that three critical health and safety projects at Fort Monroe, VA, remain unfunded, in spite of the Army's plan to transfer ownership of that installation's property to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2011.

I would concur with Secretary Volcker, that having been pitched by some of those firms along my career, those Chinese walls disappear oftentimes when you are being pitched as a potential client, the value of being able to kind of commingle…

The legislative language I think has to be pretty clear, to tell the supervisors that if somebody is getting around the obvious intent of the rule, the supervisor can do something about it.

Most of the initial folks who got us into this downward spiral were not the commercial banks but were investment banks.

I thank you and Senator Shelby for having this hearing.

If they wanted to retain the banking license, they would have to live within the rules of a bank.

Madam Speaker, on rollcall No. 22 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

I thank the gentleman. I hope he remains. There may be other things we may want to discuss about this. But before we get back to him, I'd like to recognize the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway) who is a very outspoken Member of Congress…

Well, I thank the gentleman for his comments. You know, Washington, D.C., has a spending addiction, and it has proven to be an addiction that the Congress cannot control without a balanced budget amendment requiring that it make the…

I thank the gentleman. And the gentleman raised a very interesting point about how we grow this economy and what this does to it, because he correctly points out that we are going to grow this economy in the private sector, people who will…