I know my time is up. First of all, again I want to thank both witnesses for being here.

I think there has been a misnomer put upon the American people by many commentators...

I am talking about the bank's capital cannot leave the commercial bank and go to the other parts of the bank holding company without taking a reduction in capital at that commercial institution.

I think this is an opportunity for us, I think, to continue to put pressure--to make sure that more draconian steps are taken.

My sense is that Haiti is a place where we have an opportunity.

I rise to speak about the Gregg-Conrad amendment that I hope we will vote on later this evening or tomorrow. I know everybody in this body is concerned greatly about the long-term issues we have to deal with as relates to our deficits. I…

I am absolutely a cosponsor and I absolutely agree that political winds are blowing, I might add, on both sides of the aisle. The President tried to announce something yesterday that we all know is not as strong as this amendment. It was…

I think this statutory commission is our best hope at restoring fiscal sanity in this country. It is important that we adopt it. I am proud to be a cosponsor of the amendment. There are a number of us on this side of the aisle who are…

I think, to the degree that climate enthusiasts can figure out a way of focusing on climate without it being a net-plus extraction from our citizens' pockets into your pockets or our pockets, that would be a good thing.

I do think that, you know, there's probably 35-percent energy consumption out there that could be reduced through efficiencies.

It seems--it does sort of feel, to us, that you're slow-walking the things that many of the folks in the White House may think are bad policies.

It seems like, in every case, it leads us to the development of a country, and the fact that there's poverty and not opportunity.