Jim Himes actually said...

"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"

"With the exception of the American Recovery Act, which was profoundly controversial and partisan here, Congress has utterly and completely abnegated its role to conduct the kind of fiscal policy that ..."

"those things have been linked to the recovery by my friends in the Republican Party."