Nancy Pelosi: “I called the Secretary of the Treasury and said, We are meeting here in my office, and wondered if we could be helpful…”

“I called the Secretary of the Treasury and said, We are meeting here in my office, and wondered if we could be helpful in any way in terms of public policy, because what we seem to see coming out from the executive branch is chaos. Different responses to different challenges that were not adding up to us. Could you, Mr. Secretary, come to the Congress tomorrow and give us a report on what is happening? And I said could you be here at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning to tell us what is happening to the markets? Secretary Paulson said, ``Madam Speaker, tomorrow morning will be too late.'' Tomorrow morning will be too late. ``Why, Mr. Secretary, have you not notified Congress? Why have you not called us sooner?…”