Carl Levin actually said...

"What is your reaction now that you read that, that something that would have been done otherwise could not be done because the writer, a Standard and Poor's employee, had to 'massage the subprime and ..."

"Well, that is not the part of the testimony he finally acknowledged, which is they were short of resources and didn't get what they requested."

"Going back to this question of what happened late in 2007..."

"We saw the beginning of the assault in our first two hearings, which examined how U.S. financial institutions turned to high-risk lending strategies."