Data are critical not only because we can't design programs accurately if we don't know what is going on.

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.

I do not believe that the current plan that has been advanced under the TARP legislation... will work to get the credit flowing.

Government must be made more responsible to the people.

None of this seems fair.

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

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

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.