A liquidation of our domestic auto industry would have devastated our already struggling economy, caused painful job losses and impacted countless other business sectors.

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

Colorado families deserve better than this from their Government.

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.

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

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

The reserve requirements are making it harder for us to lend, not easier to lend.

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.

I think that it is really important that the administration continues to drive policies that are really going to have an effect for small businesses in places like Colorado for our community banks.

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.