Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I'm interested in how that arrangement is different than the relationship between the Wall Street banks and the credit rating agencies."

"I think that while nobody wants a central command somewhere at CMS directing every iota of the development of this process and probably inhibiting it, we are responsible here in Congress for setting t..."

"I hope that we're able to go forward in a bipartisan and productive way, as has been the hallmark so far of Senator Alexander and Chairman Murray and this committee."

"My experience is that when you've got that much data, people are a lot less accountable about when they meet the standard because they can find some other standard where they did OK."