Jim Himes actually said...

"I salute you and compliment you for really working hard around something that is enormously challenging in the face of criticism."

"The criticism forgets when words like 'tsunami' are bantered about, what kind of tsunami hit America households in 2008 and 2009."

"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."