John Spratt: “The gentleman has 2 minutes remaining on his original allocation of time? The Acting CHAIRMAN. It has returned to the…”

I want to thank Congresswoman Gwen Moore for suggesting this hearing and for her role in bringing it about and putting it together.

All of these have contracts for ultimate waste disposal with the federal government?

Failed Republican economic policies had brought the financial system dangerously close to a complete meltdown and had driven the economy into its deepest recession since the 1930s.

I think it is a bit irresponsible to at least articulate to the American people, to the Congress, why you think we need a new policy direction.