It's one of hundreds, if not thousands, of stories that we've heard from across the State of Colorado, millions of stories across the country, of people whom the current system let down in a fundamental and profound way.

Thank you to you for holding this hearing and for your leadership throughout this debate.

I think you described it as temporary targeted programs--might be necessary to get our small businesses access to the credit that they need.

Every weekend when I go home to Colorado, what I hear from small businesses is they have no access to capital, no access to credit.

It is my pleasure today to introduce Harris Sherman and speak in support of his nomination.

Congratulations on assuming the chairmanship.

I think this is fraught with incredible amounts of potential unintended consequences, and we need to be enormously careful.

I think both the Fed Chairman and the Treasury Secretary have been doing good work trying to get us out of here.

I think we have just seen 20 years of leverage piling up on our system and lack of attention to that that has led to the destruction of... our economy.

I hope that whatever it is we arrive at here and whatever we do, the Administration leads toward a bias that when firms need to fail, they fail.

The innovation history of agriculture is one of America's success stories, and I think with this we will see a continuation of that.

We are going to see companies that can make anhydrous ammonia out of corncobs and reduce our reliance on petroleum.