Political Quotes

Jim Bunning

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Jim Bunning is a former United States Senator from Kentucky, serving from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Bunning was known for his strong conservative positions and advocacy for fiscal responsibility. Before his political career, he was a professional baseball player, notably a pitcher in Major League Baseball, where he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. Bunning's tenure in the Senate included a focus on issues such as energy policy and workers' compensation reform, often criticizing the Department of Energy's handling of compensation programs for workers.

Quotes by year · 20012010447 total · peak 2009 (236)
2001: 11 quotes2003: 52 quotes2004: 17 quotes2007: 1 quote2008: 1 quote2009: 236 quotes2010: 129 quotes
Oct 7, 2009

It has been over a year since the creation of your agency, yet you still do not have an Inspector General.

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Oct 7, 2009

You as the acting head of it, you could at least make a suggestion to the Administration that this is a critical position that needs to be filled.

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Oct 7, 2009

if they are going to bust the bank, if they are going to blow the housing and the market right out of sight, then we as regulators or as policymakers have got to prevent that.

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Oct 6, 2009

I can tell you when Chairman Greenspan and Chairman Bernanke came before this Banking Committee as a whole, they were all warned about it.

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Oct 6, 2009

the Congress of the United States gave that power to the Federal Reserve and expected them to completely fulfill their obligation in oversight of the mortgage market.

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Oct 6, 2009

Without reform of bank capital standards, rating agencies, and housing subsidies like the GSEs, is there any way the private asset-backed security market will ever return?

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Oct 6, 2009

Probably the biggest factor that led to the problems in the securitization market were artificial demand created by bank capital rules favoring highly rated securities over whole loans.

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Oct 6, 2009

Right now there is no basic private securitization market, especially for mortgages.

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Oct 6, 2009

I find that the rating agencies were right in the middle of all that.

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