Jack Conway on Budget & Economy

Against TARP bailouts due to lack of accountability

CONWAY: I support some of President Obama's agenda. The stimulus, 1/3 of it went to tax cuts. 1/3 of it went to keeping the jobs of police and firefighters. And 1/3 supposedly went to shovel-ready projects where the administration hasn't done that great a job. Actually, I wouldn't have voted for the bailouts. There weren't enough accountability in them. We had people getting bonuses after getting the bailouts. And on health care, look, we've got 654,000 Kentuckians getting health care for the first time as a result of this bill. What I'm not for, is the $2,000 deductible and taking our health care system back to a pre-World War II system, which is what Rand Paul's on the record as having said. So I'd like to fix health care. He wants to repeal it. And I think that's a stark difference.

IRS bailouts reward banks for poor business practices

"I will fight for prudent oversight of financial institutions and be sure we learn from past mistakes. My job will be to increase transparency in the financial industry, strengthen consumer protections and improve economic opportunities for the people facing hard times."