"I look forward to joining you in New Jersey when you come to hear from people along the New Jersey shore about what drilling off the Outer Continental Shelf would mean to them in their lives, in the economy of the State and in coastal States like New Jersey."
"Does it really make sense to open areas where there is no existing oil and gas infrastructure?"
"If oil and gas companies are not using the leases they have now, I'd like to know why they need more leases in environmentally and economically sensitive areas."
"We support Senator Menendez's amendments and provide specific comments below."
"You have got to quantify this risk. You have to tell us what is the level of the systemic risk."
"I mean, how can you keep coming back and asking for monies in which you cannot quantify for us the systemic risk and the assets here?"
"it is just a recipe of throwing more money in a process in which we don't have a quantifiable baseline to determine where we should be going."
"This is an area that I share Chairman Bernanke's comments about being angry."
"Well, it seems to me that there is a real risk here that we are, by Federal money, providing AIG with the wherewithal to unfairly compete in this marketplace, and at the same time inheriting the risk ..."
"But shouldn't we be putting AIG through the same stress test that we are talking about in terms of financial institutions?"
"Many, many servicers have agreed to start refinancing the mortgages and they feel they are protected by the guidance that you have issued."