Mike Capuano

The aviation industry has other problems. They can't seem to be getting all the things that we all want actually in place.

What kind of a process is this? And how do I make it better?

We need to be able to transport goods. But we need to be able to do it in a safe manner.

There is something wrong. And I am not sure, as one Member, whether it is both agencies have become captive to the industry.

I am not trying to kill the railroads. Railroads are important to this country.

I think you have heard a lot of the frustration.

We have got the NTSB that has been calling for various regulations forever.

I have never seen more Members attend a hearing and stay as long as they have to ask questions.

It is just unacceptable.

I agree with everything you just said, except the phrase, 'Central Valley.' Just change that to 'New England.'

People who own something should have some say on what the thing that they own does.

Most of my constituents... don't really think that the SEC has ever... stood with them.

If you actually do believe that shareholders own the corporation, you should be pushing harder for the shareholders.

I judge people on what they do, not on what they say.

If you own this company, why do you not have those rights? And why does the SEC not stand with the owners?

And I know from my personal work on that bill with Congressman Frank that we tried at every turn to try to make a distinction between the regulation against the big banks that caused the problem and the community banks who did not cause…

If one of my constituents were to loan me money and not allow me to pay them back, what would you call that?

But there is conservatorship because you won't let them out. You won't let them pay off their debt.

If that is the case, how long are you going to keep holding Fannie and Freddie hostage?

The question is, when are we going to stop using this as a piggy bank?

But that $40 billion is only the beginning.

So that goes in the general fund, and we, Congress, and you, the Administration, in the normal course, can spend it any way we want?

But if they do, would you let us know? Because I would like to know that Congress thinks you shouldn't be doing your job by talking to people on an international basis.

If we are going to ask ridiculous questions, I just think we may as well go to the logical extreme of absurdity.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.