Chris Van Hollen

The largest category of spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office, is what they call tax expenditures.

Anybody who claims that this budget that was proposed actually balances on any kind of credible assumptions is smoking something.

How is it in a democratically elected institution where we decided to invest Federal taxpayer dollars in infrastructure projects, just tell me how that is communism.

It is pure--it is pure Enron accounting to pretend that this budget balances at 10 years.

There has been an ongoing issue with respect to the Russell Senate Office Building.

I have introduced legislation to authorize Congress to accept the statue

In my experience, the quality of their work has been really great.

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This major tax change masquerading under the cover of health care

It flatly contradicts your statement of no absolute tax cuts for the upper class. It is a flat contradiction.

Recently, I sent you a letter together with many of my colleagues on this Committee objecting to your decision to put Keith Noreika in charge at the OCC by using a maneuver that evaded Senate confirmation.

I think tax reform can work, can be an important step--that we should focus on middle-income tax relief and not another round of tax breaks for the very wealthy and special interests.

That totally violates--totally violates--the standard you set forward in November, doesn't it?

Can we improve upon how we regulate the banks and the shadow banks and the rest of the financial services industry? Of course we can.

You cannot lead if we do not believe you.

The President was elected saying Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us; 'we are going to tax Wall Street,' his words.

I look forward to working with you on that, and I thank all of you for your testimony.

In my view, that is premature until we have exhausted the other alternatives, and one of those other alternatives is secondary sanctions.

I do hope this Committee will begin to look into that issue because it is in contradiction, it conflicts with the Federal focus on trying to get to the bottom of money laundering.

I would like to join my colleagues in welcoming all of you.

I want to thank you for making that decision. As you pointed out, that was consistent with the statute.

We all know that families across the country were absolutely devastated by the financial meltdown.

They are facing challenges of access to credit, foreclosure mitigation, neighborhood blight.

I hope we will all adhere to the advice from our colleague, which is this be done based on the science and not the politics.

We all want to make sure that we have a pesticide regulation regime that is scientifically based.