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 ...
What we should do instead... is, one, either... we should do what the FDIC normally does.
The advantage of going last in the opening statements is that I have the privilege of agreeing with my colleagues.
This crisis may have begun with subprime mortgage lending.
I believe it is unacceptable for us to continue to allow this anomaly to continue.
Government must be made more responsible to the people.
People are angry that small businesses are threatened with closure because they can't get financing from their TARP-assi...
We have spent nearly six months... reviewing the response of two administrations to an unprecedented financial crisis.
People are angry that even if they have consistently paid their bills on time... their TARP-assisted banks are unilatera...