I do not care who he is. I do not trust any Secretary of the Treasury with $700 billion and no reporting relationship and no oversight.

We required Treasury to put homeowners and the financial security of American families at the top of the agenda.

I think we did the right thing and I think history will prove that to be the case.

our efforts toward al-Qaeda have now created a situation where we're involved in two major nation-building/state-building efforts--Iraq and Afghanistan.

I think it points to, especially in this time of tremendous distrust of Washington, that we've earned fairly, this whole Rube Goldberg notion of creating this vehicle to basically not be straight with the American people is interesting to…

I would call it a scheme, or in the event there's a carbon tax that at least one principle we ought to adhere to is that not any of that leaves the economy.

I think it's wrong to assume that the cap and trade is really complicated and the tax is going to be really simple.

I assure you there are plenty of hucksters around this world that will figure out a way to take that in.

So I'd just like to point out to the committee what that means in code. Is thanks to CRS giving us these great definitions, is that we are transferring wealth out of this country to other countries around the world.

Why is it you think that climate change activists don't have the courage just to be straight with the American people? Say this is about raising the price of carbon and setting a carbon price and everybody understanding that?

But you--but it is to raise the price--raising the price of carbon----

I think how we distribute the revenue that is raised is a very complicated question that draws. It's a political question.