Tim Geithner: “You cannot effectively oversee a financial system without much better information than we had access to before the…”

If those were embraced by the Congress tomorrow, there would be substantially more confidence around the world in the capacity of this political system in Washington.

I do not believe there is a credible argument to make that uncertainty about our fiscal deficits or uncertainty about the design of regulation in Washington today is having a material adverse effect on the American economy today.

I definitely believe that Dodd-Frank has put us in a much stronger position than we were before the crisis.

If Congress were to choose to try to defer everything... that would be very damaging to the interests of the country.