Government must be made more responsible to the people.

None of this seems fair.

People are angry that small businesses are threatened with closure because they can't get financing from their TARP-assisted banks.

People are angry that even if they have consistently paid their bills on time... their TARP-assisted banks are unilaterally raising their interest rates.

We have spent nearly six months... reviewing the response of two administrations to an unprecedented financial crisis.

What is Treasury's strategy?

It is very disappointing that Secretary Geithner did not make it a priority to be here.

This lack of a clear strategy is also hampering our economic recovery.

Maryland has aggressively confronted this crisis.

I want to be careful to be disciplined about the time.

The voices of those who helped bring us this crisis and who have profited handsomely from it are well heard in the halls of Washington.