Brad Sherman actually said...

"I would hope that banks would be less free to rip off consumers and less free to rip off the U.S. taxpayer through some new bailout program."

"The other problem I have with this rule is it is written by economists who have this absurd belief that everyone else in the country is an economist."

"If you are going to provide more protection and less freedom, you would think you would do that for my 86-year-old mother rather than for me."

"It is absurd for us to have two different rules."