The committee is profoundly disturbed about the recent string of allegations that companies...may have engaged in questionable accounting practices.

I'd rather not subpoena Ms. Stewart, ... I've extended an invitation to talk with our investigators. I said we'd do that in the place of her choosing in a nonpublic way without advance notice to the press so we wouldn't have paparazzi there. But she's declined to do that.

You can't legislate morality, ... Some very bright lines have to be draw to bring us into the 21 st century for the economy we have now. We can make some very bright lines in the law.

You're just as dead if you die in the hospital waiting for a drug that should have been approved six months ago.

The Supreme Court ultimately will rule on COPA, and we look forward to the day when we can receive the high court's opinion on our legislative effort to protect children from hard-core pornography

It was very difficult to believe he was completely forthcoming with us,

The role of honest broker, which is the duty of NHTSA, has been surrendered to two very threatened firms.

Both companies may be expected to produce analyses that strengthen their own positions,

The facts in this matter, I thought, were very clear, ... I can't believe she didn't understand that she had participated in this insider trading, and she had tried to cover it up. And the Justice Department is always going to be lenient if you make a plea bargain agreement, if you don't go to court, admit your guilt. It's historically the smart thing to do when you've done something that you shouldn't have.

We do the matchmaking. It's a dating service.