"One especially clear embodiment of the misplaced priorities of House Republicans is their hostility to clean energy."
"I do believe that there is a lot of agreement. But let me just start with what sort of got me going here."
"They continue to refer to the auto rescue, not as an example of an important government intervention that helped millions of jobs, but as an example of crony capitalism."
"I wasn't in office, though, at the time. So that is easy for me to say."
"I don't believe that that is appropriate."
"I think many of us believe that the decision to help rescue the financial industry was a bitter pill but a necessary one."
"I am assuming from your testimony you don't think that that is an inappropriate government interference in the marketplace?"
"Putting aside reform? ... I mean, that is the problem is that we have this attitude that if you start something in the mid-20th century, it is appropriate to keep doing it the same way 50 years later."
"I just want to clarify. I didn't think it was."
"I agree with you--first of all, I also agree with Mr. Edwards that we should get rid of some of those agriculture subsidies."
"I wonder if you would take that same approach to tax expenditures that aren't serving their purpose."
"I do hope that the Senate will take up the bill we passed over here in a bipartisan basis with respect to expedited rescission and legislative line item veto."