These are people who protect our neighborhoods, teach our children, dedicate themselves to public service, and AIG cheated them out of $96 million.

I came to this Congress not to represent these people on Wall Street who have been shafting the American people.

until this matter is resolved, you are going to keep getting called in front of Congress to explain why it's OK for AIG to cheat police, firemen, teachers and public employees.

I am asking these questions on behalf of my constituents in Ohio who are policemen, firemen, teachers and other public employees in Ohio, who AIG defrauded, defrauded their pension funds.

Will you be able to let this committee know whether or not you intend to honor the letter that says that you're going to pay bonuses to people?

When you look at state statutes for manslaughter... people would start to ask questions about what is wrong with the law.

There is really a two-class society here when it comes to the concerns of workers and the concerns of corporate executives.

I think that I am hopeful that either in this committee or another committee, we will have OSHA in front of us.

It is an anathema to me as to why, 40 years after the OSHA law was passed... we are sitting here today having a discussion.

Is it an accident if an employer fails to provide safety equipment?

Workplace safety, which should be a basic right, is not.

I think we have to be aware of the capabilities of existing law here.

You know, when you look at state statutes for manslaughter, let us say you had 100,000 cases of manslaughter nationally, and there were only a few dozen prosecuted, people would start to ask questions about what is wrong with the law.

I want to find out the role of the banks in this chain of custody of the money.

Now, the U.S. Government gives you $1.8 billion. What do you do with it? Where does it go, physically?

I voted for the stimulus in the hopes that the money is going to get to help the people for whom it is intended.

Mr. Skyler, how much funds have the city of New York received already from this program?

And when will that $4 billion be finally received?

I think that the money that could stimulate business in communities like Bedford-Stuyvesant, I have greater concern, because unless there is some intentional mechanism to open up avenues that have been previously been closed, the money is…

With all this money being available, it seems to me we should be able to hire people to knock on doors to tell people what programs are available.

I want to know if any money is sitting around waiting to find a program while there are people around the country waiting for a job.

I'm only interested where national stimulus funds are going in.

I think one of the things that we will be doing with this committee is that we really analyze how much of a stimulus this stimulus package is for the economy.

So, these stimulus funds, and this goes into a question, and I'm sure it's raised--they're being used to supplement additional spending--you're not substituting for city spending?

According to the revenue architects, we need over $2 trillion in repairs for infrastructure.