W. Todd Akin: “That's correct. We passed a bill. Reclaiming my time, we did pass a bill. And this is something that we saw as a…”

“That's correct. We passed a bill. Reclaiming my time, we did pass a bill. And this is something that we saw as a problem. But as you will recall, the way that the Senate body works, while we sent legislation over to them, this article goes on to say the Democrats opposed it. And we did have the 60 votes to get it passed. So nothing was done. And perhaps if there is any blame that needs to be made on the economy being in the condition it's in, it really rests with the U.S. Congress, with the House and the Senate. Now these other rating agencies that said that you're going to give a Triple A rating to this trash, certainly they ought to have to be accountable as well. And certainly Wall Street was knowing that they were selling trash and rating it Triple A and selling it all over the world. It wasn't that they hadn't done some things wrong, but to allow that to happen, first of all, the Congress was out to lunch.”