Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"Again, I welcome each of you here to change the game that has been played in the past, and ultimately responsible for the financial disaster, in my view, that we've seen."

"But nothing is more important than putting people back to work and making sure that our economy is never again threatened by the risky bets of Wall Street gamblers."

"This, to me it looks like we might wind up back in the 2008 situation if we had to restrict ourselves to the things that you're now planning to do and improve the supervision and the reliability of th..."

"The challenge is not to just reduce the deficit. The challenge is to do it in a way that doesn't hurt future economic growth and hurt investment in the United States."