Jim Bunning

I just want you to know, today.

significant price drops in exchange-traded funds, as was mentioned by Senator Bunning.

I am troubled by the way exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds move differently than the stocks they are actually supposed to track.

I am talking about current.

But I am sorry, sir. Sophisticated--even if they are not sophisticated, anybody that puts a market order in knows exactly what is going to happen to a market order.

In other words, you did not have any big losses on your market.

I come to the floor to speak about financial reform and the bill the Senate is considering right now. I have made no secret of my desire to pass a strong financial reform bill and rein in excesses of our largest financial companies. No…

I rise today to talk not about obstructionism but, rather, about transparency and the rules. And the rule I am going to talk about is a rule that, in fact, we embraced in the last Congress. When I first came to the Senate, we embraced this…

I rise in strong opposition to the nomination of Lael Brainard to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. I do not think it is unreasonable for the American people to expect nominees to important posts in the Treasury…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Does it concern you that the only way to prop up the housing market is to put the taxpayer on the hook?

Do you agree that low down payment and no down payment loans were a significant contributor to the housing bubble?