I rise today to honor the life of SPC Chad Derek Clements of the U.S. Army and Huntington, IN. Specialist Clements was assigned to F Company, 4th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Division. He was only 26 years old when he lost his…

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Well, let us hope we can get some bipartisan cooperation around here in getting our fiscal house in order, which will help with the savings issue.

This may be my last opportunity to interact with you in this capacity, and I just want to take this moment to thank you for your service to our country once again.

Capital liquidity standards, resolution protocols, how we handle derivatives, all those kinds of things, it is just important that we harmonize as much as possible.

I will make one comment I do not expect you to respond to, but a skeptic might look at all this and say what was really at work here was a choice between an eventual orderly restructuring or a disorderly restructuring that could have been…

Our budget deficits and debt, which is accurately described, as you pointed out, as unsustainable.

I think engagement with the European Parliament is another avenue for continuing our joint efforts to bring those standards up.

I hope your take-away from this when you go to the international forums in which you work with our counterparts is that you can tell them that the Congress is serious about convergence.

I note that estimates show that $5 trillion in bank debt may be coming due in 2012.

I am delighted they are talking about the capital standards, but this is going to involve different levels of domestic political pain depending upon the country.

the importance of strong Congressional oversight.