"On the long-term front, we are looking at $50, $60 trillion worth of unfunded liabilities; i.e., we see the obligation coming, we have not set aside a nickel to pay for them."
"I want to make my last question one that I think is a basis for optimism."
"The reason that AIG has gotten this money is because they are 'systemically important.'"
"Mr. Chairman, essentially taxpayers have been kept in the dark on this AIG issue."
"I think if you look at this debate, both sides are essentially proposing adding a whole truck-load of additional loopholes."
"Mr. Chairman, at what point will the taxpayer no longer be on the hook for the massive AIG failure? What is the end game for American taxpayers?"
"I believe the American people want you to be brutally honest about the true extent of our economic challenges and confident that the solutions to these challenges are being put in place."
"The time of the gentlelady has expired."
"How is this rewarding ability and achievement?"
"the administration, the Obama administration, with all they have had on their plate, has not exactly laid out all of their goals for Satellite Home Viewer reauthorization"
"From my vantage point, it is hard to see how just putting Band-aids on this issue, the question of reforming the Satellite Home Viewer Act, is going to really address the concern."