I don't know, others who voted against the whole thing, but for those of us who voted for it...

What we are trying to do here, we would like to make it better tomorrow, but if we can stop making it worse tomorrow, that is a major achievement at this point.

It is important we hear from you, obviously, but our constituents also want to know what we believe about this.

My only hope is here that this will be better managed, it will get our capital markets moving, that with this good, well-crafted stimulus program here to put people back to work, along with other steps, we can stop the erosion that is…

I appreciate the witnesses appearing today and look forward to hearing you.

I am going to recommend that we try to set up some more frequent, even with our staffs necessarily, so there is a more ongoing relationship.

I will filibuster to the end of the earth if we don't have something that protects people who are making their payments from not being called.

Had the administration 2 years ago taken on the issue of the residential mortgage market more seriously, and they obviously didn't, we wouldn't have been in that situation in September, in my view.

None of us wants to trivialize this situation, and so the issue of executive compensation is not to trivialize it all.

this is infuriating to watch these decisions be completely conflictive of what we are looking at.

I think there is a danger here that we are debating the September debate.

I want to commend you and the Ranking Member for holding this hearing to examine TARP.