I urge that you make a favorable consideration of this nomination as quickly as you can.

And I want to commend the President of the United States for picking him. It was a great choice.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman and Senator Boxer.

I don't believe for a minute that the people are going to say let's go back to a system where we have 500,000 or 600,000 people without insurance. That's the wrong direction.

Chicago-style backroom buy-offs, at the expense of the American taxpayers.

Chicago-style, back room buyouts at the expense of the American taxpayers.

Regulation SHO--do you think Regulation SHO has really worked that well?

Look, I don't think it's the right thing to allow people to negatively short sell, especially when they do it to a company and knock its stock way down deliberately.

I hope you really--and Lanny, I hope you guys in the Justice Department will really look at this too, because I know too many companies that I think have been abused because of negative short selling.

Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for your energetic leadership in this area. I want to thank the three of you for the work that you do.

I'm very concerned about this abusive short selling approach.

I think short selling may be valuable. I don't think that negative short selling that's abusive is valuable. I think it's destructive.

I would not exactly characterize these prosecutions as 'successes.'

I believe that number is probably closer to 50 than it is the 195 that has been bandied about.

Well, I am very interested in how a cap-and-trade program would affect the poor.

The cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide emissions would reduce the number of jobs in industries that produce carbon-based energy.

What bothers me a lot is that, when I was chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee, now called the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, I used to go over to Geneva to the ILO, the International Labor Organization.

Is it possible to construct a cap-and-trade program that reduces carbon emissions, that is not felt by the poor?