Tim Geithner: “I would not ever support a regime where we created the expectation we created for Fannie and Freddie that in the end the…”

the only way to restore fiscal responsibility and still preserve the commitments we need to make to our retirees and national security, is by a modest increase in the effective tax rate for the Americans who are in the best position to…

Those--the cuts are designed to starve those agencies of the ability--deny them the ability to enforce a set of basic, sensible protections for consumers and investors.

We can't keep putting it off indefinitely.

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