Cliff Stearns: “I do not support those that are based on bureaucrats' opinions.”

In an ideal world, the government would never really have gone down this road to create these loan guarantee programs in the first place. I think all of us realize that. While eliminating the program outright is admittedly appealing, and I…

I want to thank George and Charles for their report and for their outstanding leadership for these very important former Members of the Congress programs, and we appreciate very much what you do. Normally, at this juncture in our report, I…

I would say to the dean of the House of Representatives, I appreciate sincerely his compliments and his kind words about me. The words he used by calling us Luddites, of course, refers to the 19th century textile workers who objected to…

I thank the distinguished chairman. And let me say that we are here this morning because the Oversight Committee, under the leadership of Mr. Upton, and myself as chair were able to define the problems. Now, on that side of the aisle, they…