Look, I went through this. For 10 years I tried to get the Fed to do a 'Schumer Box,' credit card disclosure.
We have seen in debates over funding for the SEC and CFTC some Members of Congress use the power of the purse, not just ...
Disclosure is how the economy is supposed to work.
Many of us have conflicted feelings about this approach because, on the one hand, it would ensure we do not default, but...
But I am not talking about the long-term deficit. I am talking about renewal of the debt ceiling by such a little amount...
Better to do it through 2013 than do it a month at a time?
And, by the way, to boot, wouldn't that hurt the economy?
So you do not agree with those that--that in a sense is default, right?
OK, and that is the outcome some of us are working toward right now, so I appreciate that, because to do one without the...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
But if we do not raise the debt ceiling after August 2nd, that would require us to stop paying almost half of our other ...