Tim Geithner: “The things that are burdening the economy, making growth weaker are things that only Congress can solve.”

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

Executive compensation played a material role in causing the financial crisis because it encouraged excessive risk taking.

Absolutely. Yes, again, we see there's no prospect to an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top 2 percent of the wealthiest Americans.

The TARP bank investments have already produced a profit for the taxpayer of over $19.5 billion.