The advantage of going last in the opening statements is that I have the privilege of agreeing with my colleagues.
What we should do instead... is, one, either... we should do what the FDIC normally does.
Data are critical not only because we can't design programs accurately if we don't know what is going on.
We all should care enormously about the data that we will talk about today and what comes out of this hearing.
I do not believe that the current plan that has been advanced under the TARP legislation... will work to get the credit ...
This policy is likely to prolong the agony and leave a still-wounded banking system dragging down the real economy.
Government must be made more responsible to the people.
We have spent nearly six months... reviewing the response of two administrations to an unprecedented financial crisis.
None of this seems fair.
People are angry that even if they have consistently paid their bills on time... their TARP-assisted banks are unilatera...
People are angry that small businesses are threatened with closure because they can't get financing from their TARP-assi...