Tim Geithner: “We are not going to do new things, new, expensive things, long-term commitments, without paying for them.”

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

I believe, as does the President, that there is no plausible way for us to address the many economic challenges facing the country, including our unsustainable fiscal deficits, without asking those most fortunate few to pay a modestly…

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

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.