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

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

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.

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

I want to know immediately. I do not need to get letters. Just tell me when you are not getting answers.

It is literally infuriating.

I had 82 hearings in the Banking Committee, over a third of them on this subject matter alone. We faced six filibusters--almost a record number--on a single piece of legislation. There were those who were vehemently opposed. There were all…

This amendment would apply to recipients of TARP assistance, stronger restrictions on executive compensation. It bans bonuses for most highly paid executives of TARP-recipient firms: Prohibits TARP recipients from paying a bonus, retention…

responding to my colleague and friend from Missouri, she is absolutely correct. I think there is a tendency to look at these issues as if they were somehow stovepiped, separate from each other, this dealing with the TARP legislation and…

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

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…

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.

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.

I understand to be that you believe this ought to be a high-priority item for this Congress, the 111th Congress.

Let me thank all of my colleagues, and I think you all understood we intended, obviously, at some time earlier to have this hearing a little earlier.

the issue of the subject matter of this hearing, the modernization of the U.S. financial regulatory system.

I must say, you are always a spectacular witness.

we had an interesting session on our side of the aisle, gathering today to listen to some of our new economic team under President Obama

I strongly opposed the TARP bailout legislation because I believed Congress jumped right to a legislative solution without first identifying the problem it was trying to solve.

I asked someone once, 'Why do you think it is that the world comes here?'

This is the moment. This is the moment. We have been given, unfortunately, a moment.

I believe it is consumer protection.

Someone made, I thought, a very wise suggestion. And that is to begin, in Medicare, providing screening and prevention to people at the age of 55.

I think it is critical if we are going to have universal care that we provide long-term care and services and support.

I can't imagine us having a universal healthcare reform package and not including a long-term support and services for people.