I'm extremely concerned about the rapid increase in our budget deficit. Our fiscal trajectory is unacceptable in the long run.

The TARP does need oversight. These Coloradans can tell you firsthand what is broken now.

TARP should also be about rural America and working families, community banks, and average taxpayers, not just about big New York banks.

Colorado families deserve better than this from their Government.

If TARP cannot work for communities like this one, then what good is it?

what ailed us most was the amount of leverage in our system.

I just want to stress how important small business and community banks are to this recovery effort.

This person is a hero for bringing this forward, and we need more, not less, of this.

Having three Cabinet Secretaries be the board of the institution seems to me to be imagining a world that we don't really exist in.

So my hope is, with SBA Administrator Mills in place now, that we can get the details out.

The problem comes when their perspective is that we are only worried about the risk of these institutions on Wall Street, not about the institutions on Main Street.