Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"This proposal would have corrected an anomaly in the Bankruptcy Code that prohibits judges from modifying primary residence mortgages the way they can modify every other type of contract."

"Well, it has been a long ordeal for our witnesses. So, all I will say is that we look forward to your practical, forward looking and optimistic voices around here."

"I just want to observe that it takes a bold legislator to want to go back into that blasted wasteland, and I'm delighted that you are doing it."

"there is a very strong do nothing caucus in the Senate. Their emotion is fear, their goal is doubt..."