It is aggressive in dealing with the short-term problems that you inherited.

Our energy policy needs to achieve two objectives: One, energy independence, so we are not as dependent upon foreign sources of energy; and two, we need to deal with the global climate change and greenhouse gas emission issues.

We have got to stop the hemorrhaging of people losing their homes, and I would just underscore that point.

I would urge you, first of all, to keep us informed as to what is happening, what the facts are.

Forty-seven million people without health insurance is extremely expensive to our economy.

I do want to start off by congratulating the Obama administration for presenting an honest budget.

We need to be able to judge how we are achieving energy independence.

We need to get to universal coverage for many reasons.

I think it is an honest budget.

When I think about banks and the way that, if you -- if you bounce a check, they're going to charge you $35 or $50 for a bounced check. And they're going to demand strict accountability. But, when they get billions, they don't want to be…

When I think about banks and the way that -- if you bounce a check, they're going to charge you $35 or $50 for a bounced check. And they're going to demand strict accountability. But when they get billions, they don't want to be…

Elijah Cummings predicts that, pretty soon, Congress is going to have to figure out where it went, because there's another $350 billion in the pipeline.

Elijah Cummings predicts that pretty soon Congress is going to have to figure out where it went because there's another $350 billion in the pipeline.

There is nothing that upsets me more than a bank that comes to the Congress begging for money, and then once they get the money, turn around and say, na, na, na, see you later. I'm not going to tell you anything.

They point is that these people are fortunate to have a job.

Well, of course, they're getting access, just as a citizen gets access when they go to a town meeting and spend some time there or when they volunteer in a campaign.

They hear about the bailouts of Wall Street. They hear that their tax dollars are being paid to AIG and these people going on these junkets and all that. They hear all of that. But they feel like it's ring around the rosy. They hear a lot…

They were getting their manicures, their facials, their pedicures and their massages.