"Thank you, Senator Durbin, for organizing this hearing, and for everything that you have done to support DREAMers."
"One of my proudest votes in the historic 111th Congress was my vote in favor of the DREAM Act."
"One of my most profound disappointments with the current House leadership is its failure to bring up the DREAM Act in any form."
"I often see DREAMers pleading simply for the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens."
"Despite the fact they have been designated as a second class of citizens, I have no doubt that many of these young men and women would be the first in line for an opportunity to serve our country in t..."
"I would like to return to something that was mentioned, which is the implicit credit allocation effects of stress tests, which are real, and I think probably unavoidable."
"Thank you all for appearing on this very complicated subject."
"In a recent speech, Ben Bernanke talked about using mortgage loan-to-value limits as a macroeconomic tool."
"Mr. Secretary when you left your first tour of duty in the White House in 2001, we were paying down our debt to the tune of a couple hundred billion dollars a year, and were on track to pay our debt d..."
"In the next 8 years, we saw the surplus we were running reversed and the structural deficit exceeding $1 trillion a year in the next 8 years."
"We are also sitting on 8 straight years of uninterrupted job growth, roughly 22 million jobs in 8 years."
"And we have made significant progress since entering the worst recession since the Great Depression."