I urge President Obama to keep the commitment in his budget to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire at the end of 2012.

And the difference in wages is incredible.

the hearing record, as Senator Durbin said, will be, remain open until next Wednesday, May 11, at 12 noon.

Under the Dodd-Frank regulatory reform law enacted last July, Federal agencies are required to scrub their rule books of references to credit ratings.

In my hometown of East St. Louis, Illinois, it was literally a food desert for the 25,000 or 30,000 people living there.

I think what we've got to do is to push forward on this law, to give you the time you need to promulgate these rules, and to give you the resources to enforce them.

Efforts to slow down or stop your agency's implementation of the Dodd-Frank legislation will limit the availability of those tools.

What I'm looking for is some kind of quantification--what we're spending, what we serve, what the universe of need is.

Can you point out any bank, or banks, or credit unions, that you think are making an extra effort to address this problem?

For too long, consumers have struggled to navigate financial products fraught with hidden fees, bait-and-switch terms, and other complex features that even experts have difficulty understanding.

It's a great, great story.

I happen to think we're seeing some changing weather patterns. That turns out to be a pretty hot political debate in Washington.

I'm just questioning about whether or not we have thought about the next year and the year after, and what it means, in terms of our thinking ahead, preparing resources for the eventuality.

I'm concerned, here, that your request for next year's budget dramatically cuts, by 55 percent, the amount of money available to counsel microloan borrowers.

I think on the flow-through issue, it's more of a conceptual conversation, and one that we'd have to have a full vetting with the Congress.

Do you have the information technology capability and the staff capability to develop what we've just discussed?

Are we prosecuting those who file false returns?

If you could take a look at the overall landscape, where do we find the most fraud?