"We have an obligation, a moral obligation, here in the Congress to know exactly what the agreements are."
"We shouldn't be afraid of the truth."
"For me, independent usually is a code word for 'secret,' so we can't get the information."
"To functionally create a commission of consumer punishment, not consumer protection, this is an original idea, it is an originally bad idea."
"Some people seem to be asserting that our citizens are incapable of managing their own risk..."
"I do not believe that we should pass any legislation that would de-incentivize States and localities from reigning in their bloated budgets."
"I am not sure why we need to pass a bill giving the Fed even more power that it already has."
"This has been the prediction of the free market economists, and yet we continue down this path of socializing our entire economy."
"I find it awfully frustrating at times when we always talk about inflation and we only talk about prices."
"Interventionism and inflationism fail because we don't have a free market pricing system of money."
"Socialism always fails because they don't have a pricing structure."