I applaud the Chairman for holding two hearings on this proposal this week.

I sent a letter to Treasury letting them know of my concern about the TARP program being used to fund bank consolidation.

I'm concerned about how we treat the detainees and where we send them.

Tomorrow night, the President of the United States will come down the hall and speak in the House of Representatives, addressing a joint session of Congress, for the State of the Union, the address Presidents have been giving for decades…

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to introduce Ted Tozer, who is the nominee for President of the Government National Mortgage Association.

The safety and security of anyone traveling in the United States is one of my top priorities.

In searching for that needle, like a needle in a haystack, we need to take some hay off the stack and ensure that the screeners be logical in their approach.

I empathize with that position and understand why it happens.

It's a commitment made to millions and millions of people that have been undercut.

Because you didn't have all the facts, oftentimes.

I empathize. I know that these demands are huge on PBGC, but there was an arrogance, in the prior administration of PBGC, that--and you don't strike me as an arrogant man--but that simply can't hold.

I so appreciate Chairman Harkin's comments about the importance of defined pension benefits.

This hearing of the Economic Policy Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee will come to order.

I think it is helpful when I am talking to sort of regular folks that we think about this in the same way that we do putting a child through college.

I hear a lot about deficit, but we don't talk all that much about the deficit we have in infrastructure that we are passing on to our children.

YSU is demonstrating its commitment to a cause greater than itself.

We must encourage and promote the value of hiring vets within the private sector and by the government.

This hearing could not have come at a more important time as our country works to recover from last year's economic meltdown.

I am proud, as Senator Dodd is, to be an original cosponsor of the FAIR Overdraft Coverage Act.

Everyone is talking about economic recovery, but we're here today because any recovery that is taking place is only happening in the financial pages--not the real world.

For many workers and retirees in Ohio and across the Nation, there is a crisis of confidence in our social contract.

Protecting retirement security was one of the purposes of the bailout of our financial system.

The Federal Government stepped in to bail out the auto industry.

I would also like to thank my Senator, Sherrod Brown, for the interest and concerns and efforts he has put forward on our behalf.

We cannot bail out an industry while leaving thousands of retirees who have loyally served it out in the cold.