I will do everything I can to give the President that authority, because I think it's enormously important.

I must admit, I am absolutely mystified as to why these three pending trade agreements have not come to the Senate and the House for debate and for a vote.

I got an Inspector General's report that was this critical, we tried to act on it, and I hope you will because, quite honestly, it is very damning.

Somebody watching this hearing must be so frustrated, we can get billions out, we can buy General Motors overnight, but we cannot help a homeowner.

I am just going to guess you never would have called me the Friday before the President bought General Motors and said, 'You know, Mike, I have been talking about it. I want to put you into General Motors.'

the goal of preserving homeownership and promoting jobs and economic growth have not been met.

You are not seriously arguing that we are going to get our money back on the General Motors investment, are you?

I have to tell you, and I will be very blunt with you, it is very damning.

I mean, the very things that TARP was designed to deal with, quite honestly, it appears to me this has been a failed program.

Treasury's originally stated goal of increasing lending has not yet occurred.

it is extremely unlikely that the taxpayers are going to get a full return on their TARP investment.

the risk of foreclosure continues to affect too many Americans.

It is time to bring that to our age, if you will.

I think if I would have gotten a letter like that, I would have, first of all, fainted and, once revived, I would have called my Inspector General, my General Counsel, my Deputy, and the White House and everybody else under the sun to say…

Fifty-billion dollars plus got out the back door before this thing collapsed.

I want to issue my strongest, without reservation, support of S. 1635, the Seventh Generation Promise: Indian Youth Suicide Prevention Act of 2009.

The Federal Government blew it. What is their remedy? Where do they go from here?

You know, that is the other part that I take away from your report, that, boy, this was, when you really came down to it, kind of a no-brainer.

Alarmingly, the rate of suicide amongst Indian children in the northern Great Plains is 10 times higher, 10 times higher than the national average.

Native American young people have the highest suicide rate of any population group in the United States.

You know, and I do not know if I should be reassured by that or not, because what you have just described for me is massive, complete, total bureaucratic incompetence.

if we have any role here, it is to protect the public.

the Federal Government, with this agency that is supposed to protect the public, failed miserably.

There is no question that we in the Federal Government must do better.

One effective way to reach these youth who are often in remote locations is through tele-medicine.