Unfortunately, the Commission – composed mostly of elected officials, rather than experts – wasted its time in political squabbles. Its members could not agree even on how to define subprime mortgages and calculate how many such mortgages there were in the United States at the time of the crisis.
不幸的是，安吉莱德斯委员会——大部分成员是当选官员，而不是专家——在无尽的政治扯皮中浪费着宝贵的时间。其成员甚至对于如何定义次级抵押贷款、如何计算危机发生时美国存在多少次级抵押贷款这样的问题都无法达成一致。