Orrin Hatch actually said...

"I hope you really--and Lanny, I hope you guys in the Justice Department will really look at this too, because I know too many companies that I think have been abused because of negative short selling."

"I think short selling may be valuable. I don't think that negative short selling that's abusive is valuable. I think it's destructive."

"Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for your energetic leadership in this area. I want to thank the three of you for the work that you do."

"Look, I don't think it's the right thing to allow people to negatively short sell, especially when they do it to a company and knock its stock way down deliberately."