He told a House subcommittee that he saw "stirrings" of a recovery, particularly in retail sales and homebuilding.

"I reject that [ notion ] categorically," he told a House subcommittee at a recent hearing on the agency's proposed budget.

The Economy Top financial executives told a House subcommittee that the potential for problems with derivatives had diminished.

The Fed chairman told a House subcommittee that authorities would be unlikely to rescue even the largest securities firms.

"We've really done pretty much all we can do, we think, from our end" to get the talks started, Mr. Baker told a House subcommittee.

The notion that some financial institutions might be too big to fail "is not good policy," Mr. Greenspan told a House judiciary subcommittee.

"Almost 80 percent of our automatic data-processing equipment - computers and the like - is obsolete," he told a House appropriations subcommittee on Thursday.

"We'll have to start withdrawing from the world," he told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee.

"We have protected millions of Americans from cancer, heart disease and premature death," she told a House Commerce subcommittee last week.

Mr. Freeh told a House subcommittee last week that guidelines in force for a decade should now be reinterpreted.