"No one should be satisfied with our weak and unimpressive economic recovery."
"This simple adjustment will enable financial institutions to return to their traditional business of relationship mortgage lending in their communities."
"Oh, it certainly counts. I just think that our aspirations need to be much higher."
"But I have heard from my constituents that the request to move the unexpended funds from one grantee in one Kentucky county to another less than an hour away has been denied."
"Mr. Secretary, I appreciate your offer. I want to work with you on that to, again, help you make good on your commitment to make these dollars go further for the American taxpayer."
"I have heard from many of my constituents who are grantees of Continuum of Care, which is supposed to take care of our homeless population."
"The United States has the best, most environmentally-friendly, energy technology on the planet with respect to coal-fired power."
"Thank you for your forthrightness in acknowledging that there is a problem with the National Flood Insurance Program."
"The program does indeed need reform, there are governance issues, and there is a lost capacity to monitor some of these insurance carriers."
"If we are moving people from dependency on the government to independent, self-sufficiency, that to me is success."
"I appreciated that in your testimony, you indicated that the responsible lending by community banks and credit unions did not cause the financial crisis."