Since the day I introduced the first bill to create such a bureau, Wall Street has fought to defeat and undermine it.

Since passage of that legislation, there has been a steady effort by Wall Street to undo that Wall Street reform.

As Federal CDFI funding has grown, the program has been able to maintain and actually improve on job creation per Federal dollar spent.

the way to stop that reform is to fail to fund an agency like your own, to make sure there are no cops on the beat.

I cannot reconcile, in my mind, how a bank believes that foreclosing on a home, boarding it up, letting the weeds grow in the front yard and the vandals come in and rip out all the copper plumbing until it reaches the point that it becomes…

I'm deeply concerned that the Tea Party Republican plan to cut funding for reform is in place.

Mr. Secretary, in my opening statement, I mentioned the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

So we're in this debate here about our deficit and how we can come up with a savings of $4 trillion over 10 years.

So, I think you answered--I was going to ask a question, if other countries do it more effectively than we do...

What a great story.

it is vitally important that the $227 million in the President's fiscal 2012 budget requested for the CDFI Fund is appropriated.

It's terrific to hear, firsthand, your experience with these Federal agencies, and demystify some of this regulatory gobbledygook.

The IRS represents the face of Government to more U.S. citizens than any other agency of Government.

It's estimated that $345 billion of Federal taxes go uncollected each year--a noncompliance rate of 16.3 percent.

It appears to me, we need to increase the number of microlending partners, which mean that more small businesses will have access.

We're talking about, in many ways, an epidemic.

It's time to find a stick.

We also need to strengthen investment in our Nation's infrastructure by repairing crumbling roads and bridges.