I can also promise you rating agencies are going to be very much a part of our overall effort.

we have to resist the urge to abdicate our responsibility as an economic and moral leader.

This is a moral issue that strikes at the heart of our conscience.

We must put in place the tools today to help prevent future food crises down the road.

The recommendations discussed will have significant and lasting impact on our international partners.

I intend to look closely at introducing authorization legislation to ensure that we have a strong, effective aid program.

The cost of not doing anything, of sitting on the sidelines, is unacceptable.

I am especially grateful to Senator Lugar for his bold proposal, called HECTARE.

It would be a mistake to paint every financial institution with the same broad brush.

We are going to again explore ways in which we will try to modernize and improve bank regulation and supervision.

But I think what we have learned is, from the testimony, that there is more damage from tankers than there is from offshore drilling.

We can't prove a negative. We can't prove that there is going to be no 30-year effect of having a spill someplace, correct?

the problem isn't the rig activity, it is the absence or presence of policing.

if you look at the NOAA reports, the Flower Garden Coral Reefs in the Mississippi/Texas area are actually fairly healthy.

I think one way that we can move forward... is to, in fact, put a cap on interest rates.

Are we looking at a form of three-piece-suit CEO corporate loan sharking here?

the incredible greed, recklessness, illegal behavior on the part of Wall Street has enraged the American people.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for allowing me to drop into this Committee of which I am not a member, and thank you also very much, Mr. Chairman, for cosponsorship of legislation that I have introduced which would put a cap on credit…