"Where was Treasury when you had people driving Mercedes or renting office space in the Taj Mahal?"
"I don't like the idea of us having to have hearings like this and then coming back and trying to fix a problem that should never have occurred to start with."
"So I just want to know, does the Treasury take seriously its oversight responsibility to make sure that the people at the State level who are handling Federal dollars, taxpayer dollars, are not abusin..."
"I hope you didn't spend a million dollars on it, because I think for a million dollars I could have gone in there with a sledgehammer and a wheelbarrow."
"So you've got $962,000 in balance?"
"One of the problems, potential problems that I see in some of these programs, particularly demolition, is that the State agencies ensure that there's an open bid process for that type of work so that ..."
"I think the whole point of the program was to help people who owned their homes to be able to stay in their homes."
"The process is so impossibly complex and cumbersome."
"One of the reasons this really, really bothers me is that we sent out $140 billion in improper payments last year."
"You have to take seriously what Congress intends."
"There seems to be a lack of seriousness and commitment to help the hardest hit homeowners keep their homes."
"First of all, I would hate to have one of my children at a college that charges them thousands of dollars in university fees."