Jim Himes actually said...

"This fulfills the President's commitment at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh in 2009 to have that in place be the end of 2012."

"As Chairman Bachus said, if I may quote you, you want to make it operational, sync together and function."

"Of all the vast causes in the web of the difficulties that brought down the economy in 2008, no area, I think, is more complex than the areas that you have been charged to oversee, derivatives; not Fa..."

"A crisis, as we all know, put 8 million people out of work, partly due to the unregulated swaps market."