I want to see the President cut the ribbon. I want to be there. Do you think I am going to?

The criticism, Mr. Chairman, has been that it is pretty easy, if my bill goes from $2 billion to $8 billion, we are spending $6 billion.

At a time when the taxpayers of this country are providing hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street.

if an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

But don't you think it is a little bit weird and a little bit undemocratic that the taxpayers of this country are providing help--maybe it is good, maybe it is bad, maybe it is right.

In other words, some people became incredibly rich, and then when things got bad, it is the average Joe who has to bail them out.

Don't you think we have a right to know a little bit more than these banks are telling us?

Will we know who received the money?

For many years now, we have been talking about global warming, we have been talking about energy independence, but I think for the first time in history, you guys have walked the walk.

I just don't understand why we are not moving forward.

The recklessness, the greed, I suspect the illegal behavior of maybe a few hundred, a few thousand people has impacted and destroyed the lives of millions of people in this country.

Why should we put $3 trillion more into an institution which has been corrupt, dishonest, reckless, immoral?