Our job, role and responsibility is to provide some oversight and to try to fix the problem.
Jason Chaffetz
The Public Record
It would be as if I went to interview the head of Countrywide and I spent the first 30 minutes of the interview or before the cameras are rolling complaining about my personal mortgage to the guy and then get directed to some program. I…
Well, there was no quid pro quo. We could not directly tie somebody's vote directly to getting this benefit as the report points out.
It doesn't look right, it doesn't smell right because it wasn't right, Anderson.
It does, particularly when you're on the committees that are charged with maybe tightening up the rules and regulations, because we were dealing with all these bad loans and whatnot.
It was wrong, it doesn't look right, it doesn't smell right because it wasn't right, Anderson.
I think there's still some outstanding issues. But it was wrong, it doesn't look right, it doesn't smell right because it wasn't right.
Well, the Ethics Committee in general is fairly impotent. Usually, it's -- the voters have to deal with this and make these types of decisions.





