"We will be verifying that they use the tax dollars for small business lending."
"We should expect to see essentially either a dollar-for-dollar improvement in their lending or with leverage from private investment, a better than dollar-for-dollar improvement in small business lend..."
"There is an increased incentive for them to sit on the sidelines and hope that more federal dollars are coming."
"So they will be gone by the end of the year."
"I should say Treasury is still not considering the panel's recommendation to put the shares of stock of the auto industry and the large financial institutions in trust?"
"Taxpayer dollars must never be used again to prop up failing companies that are then allowed to profit at taxpayer expense."
"I am pushing to say we could do more, and as a leader in the TARP program that has made this $50 billion commitment, I am asking you to do more."
"We have pushed for a long time for more transparency, more accountability, more clarity on goals."
"'Too big to fail' is upon us now in a much larger sense."
"From the outset, it was obvious that a system so large would need very careful oversight."
"We have argued for repeating the stress tests and extending them past the 19 largest financial institutions."