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

Please continue to show up, to be heard, to speak out, to reach out in every possible way you can.

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.

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

Maryland has aggressively confronted this crisis.

We must fight back.

Our mandate is to assess the effectiveness of foreclosure mitigation efforts.

We're here in Prince George's County today because it is the foreclosure capital of the State.

There may be good policy reasons for overpaying, but without clearly delineated reasons, we can't know that.

The themes that we have returned to time and time again in the Congressional Oversight Panel have been about transparency, accountability, and a strategy that comes from clearly articulated goals.

I think this is exactly the right question and I will say, as Mr. Dodaro did, the right person to put on the stand for that question is the Treasury Department that has the authority to ask for more, indeed to demand more, not only from those who receive money in the future, but from those who have already received taxpayer dollars.