Mr. Duncan made this claim not once, not twice, but three times. Let this be a teachable moment for him.

Forty-nine conferences, 12 million bucks, but we are going to have 90-minute delays because of the sequester, right?

I appreciate--I have worked with Mr. Connolly before on projects important to his district and the region.

they approved a pretty good compensation package for the CEO of ResCap just last year.

The taxpayers get a say on pay, too.

Are you going to approve it now?

there is no concrete plan at all to get Ally out of TARP.

So not exactly making these guys sweat, right?

Treasury's failure to protect taxpayers is part of a disturbing pattern in which this Administration makes promises to the public, but then does not live up to them.

I want to end illegal immigration and undocumented workers once and for all in this country.

I was telling the staff the other day, when I first looked at it, my background coaching, working with student athletes...

So they get to be the judge, jury, and the decider in the whole thing, and they are the very company getting the taxpayer dollars in the first place.

the fact is the statement is the statement, and it was sold to the American people on the simple premise we are capping it at $500,000.

Here is a company in bankruptcy, 74 percent owned by the American taxpayers, and just because the board of directors at the company says, you know what, even though we are in bankruptcy, we think our CEO needs to make half a million…

This is amazing. This is like me asking, when my kids get in trouble, me asking them what kind of punishment do you want.

This hearing is about following the law and about an administration keeping their word.

Are we going to have to look at some legislation?

do you think that should be approved when we are trying to look at the best interest of the taxpayers

They haven't even held to the standards they created.

So you are getting the same statement from the special master that you are getting from the companies, and the special master makes the decision on information they get from the companies, the very companies the taxpayers are bailing out.

This program was an overall success and millions of people are employed in this Country who otherwise wouldn't have been.

What is the remedy? Obviously, they are not going to listen to you.

Well, that is great to hear, that you are going to consider them in the future. I mean, it has been five years, repeated requests to do things different, and we have the same old thing.

Frankly, I didn't realize it was this bad; that you are asking Ally, 74 percent owned by the taxpayer...

The American people, what they hate is when they are told one thing and they see something else happen.