I think it is important to share that power so we don't have this continual divide in a very important agency.

It is our responsibility to make sure we do our job.

We want to keep it immune from political activity.

I think many of our concerns are not about those who truly need the help... but it is those who abuse the program.

If you're using drugs and you're saying you're looking for work, I would call bogus on that.

I appreciate the gentleman from Florida for yielding. I think it is important that we review the history of Federal employee pay freezes. In the last Congress, this came up under a Democrat-controlled House, a Democrat-controlled Senate…

I want to thank the panel for coming in today.

I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. I am sick of the demagoguery. I think it is important that we truly talk about the facts. This is not a debate about whether we're going to extend the payroll tax holiday or not. This is a debate…

I appreciate the gentleman from Georgia yielding. I think it's important to note as we have listened to a debate that went on all day today that there really is no difference within this House whether we should extend the payroll tax…

Madam Chairwoman, I want to thank you again, and alert the witnesses that the Chair recently marked up a piece of legislation styled 'Homes for Heroes,'

If customer segregated funds are the ones that are missing, they do not have SIPC protection... they should be first in line in any circumstance whatsoever to get this money back.