At this point I would like to make it clear that I believe that Congress has no interest in running the day-to-day operations of these companies nor does the Obama administration.

We don't want to hurt the auto manufacturers in their restructuring efforts moving forward, but auto dealers are indeed a big part of our local community and the national economy.

General Motors has worked out I believe the situation with the Tort claims, is that correct?

You don't think that the task force maybe should have some reason to look after the people that are injured in Chrysler, if there are, hopefully there will be none, but if there are----

So when the taxpayers are called upon to bail out the industry to the tune of billions upon tens of billions of dollars, then the taxpayers have a right to regulate how these companies operate...

And it seems to me that significant numbers of automobile dealers have been sacrificed without just cause, without explanation and without any available resource...

I think that is a matter that we would expect to be discussing.

It promised to help virtually no one while inflicting unnecessary damage on the home lending market and the rule of contract.

I think it is up to us to step forward once again and not to give up on this, Mr. Chairman, because I think it is not yet too late to enact this reform and to stem this collapse of the housing market in the United States.

I think it is shameful that the Treasury Department is too busy to deal with the Congress with regard to the collapse of the housing market in America.

Is the era of freedom of contract over in this country? I hope it is not.

Why are we still trying to get out of the historic credit crisis in this country?