We banned lead in children's products, and I was very proud of that work.

I have always said one way to build support for it is by making sure that people have skin in the game across the country.

I applaud Senator Lautenberg's efforts on this issue.

Thank you, Senator Lautenberg, for your leadership.

If you look at the Madoff case at the SEC, that is the most glaring example.

I am one of the sponsors of the Fraud Enforcement Recovery Act which President Obama signed into law.

I think we have a lot of common names in Minnesota. We have a lot of Johnsons and things like that.

I introduced legislation to require the Department of Homeland Security to establish a comprehensive cleared list for innocent travels.

In fact, I know one of the things we discussed--and maybe you want to comment on this, Mr. Voss--is, arguably, the regional pilots, some of them are flying shorter flights.

I think that these rules that we have, the FAA's policies on pilot fatigue, are something like a half-century old.

I was just shocked to learn, at a hearing a few weeks ago, that the deicing rules are 12 years old.

I voted against a number of proposals to do other things with the TARP money.

I appreciate the fact the Administration wants to put the TARP money into deficit reduction.

I think part of why I am hearing more of it now is that a lot of our businesses in Minnesota... simply don't have the credit to stretch it out.

It seems to me, to take this portion of the money... could be a good use.

I think this was a major failure.

I think it is very important that this go hand-in-hand with this notion.

the idea is to try to use $40 billion in the TARP funds to be made available to small banks so that they can use those to loan to small businesses.