Jim Himes actually said...

"This is really about people's faith in organizations like yours and like the one that you're testifying in front of today."

"a lot of us subscribe to a point of view held by much of the economic profession, which is that this place, the Congress, abdicated its economic role in 2010 in favor of austerity"

"the narrative, as it has developed, is that is true, and that is a question to you."

"many of us appreciate the position that the Fed was put into, and many of us will go to the mat to defend the Fed against the many ideas that would damage the monetary policy independence of the Fed"