Richard Shelby actually said...

"I really worry today if what we are seeing is kind of a dead cat bounce where all we are doing is pushing so much borrowed liquidity into our marketplace that we are just setting ourselves up for the ..."

"To rebuild confidence in our financial system, both here at home and around the world, we must reconstruct our regulatory framework."

"Let's put a cop on that beat so that the spectacular failure of consumer protection at the root of this mess is never repeated."

"The independence of the Fed has served us well over time."