I would make a case to you, Dr. Chakravorti, that our sovereign States here, which are required to balance their books every year, are a much safer bet than some of the debt accrued around here in Washington.

I disagree with that, and I bet you do, too.

If we all as a country look at the state of our economy, where it has gone and where it is going...

We have to--as a country, I believe, stay on offense when it comes to a lot of these issues.

I know that Dodd-Frank is a smothering regulation that is reducing the available credit among lots of players in your space.

When I was State treasurer in Maine, we had a problem with other agencies like this, and we made sure they were accountable to the State legislature.

This is an organization, a regulator that has tentacles throughout our economy into all of our families' homes, all of our small businesses.

I am very pleased to support and cosponsor Congressman Barr's bill.

There is no free lunch, Mr. Hochberg, everybody knows that.

The threat of terrorism around the world is also to disrupt our quality of life, our way of life, our prosperity, and our freedoms.

It is really critical that we stay as a country on offense; we must prevent this risk from coming to our homeland.