the previous Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chairman pulled a bait-and-switch on us

I urge you, I urge you as strongly as I can as a member sitting on this Committee to not be bashful.

Not only is the money being used in ways Congress did not intend, but we do not have the transparency that was promised.

The American people are screaming because they think that the TARP money was designed for one reason--to relieve the credit crunch--and it was being used completely to take care of friends and others on Wall Street.

That is certainly not a healthy financial institution.

I can tell you, my phones in my office rang off the hook, 25,000 calls. I have not gotten 25,000 calls since I have been in the Senate.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

We will work together to change it.

Where is your plan to rescue the United States system? We have been waiting for that.

I do not understand how one company is worth propping up with $180 billion worth of taxpayers' money.

What are you going to do with a bank that your stress test shows that they are insolvent?