John Ensign

I know this is very important to Nevada and we appreciate your leadership and Senator Reid's.

Over 29 million people rely on this power, which is a clean, renewable, and reliable source of energy.

We owe it to the contractors, who have made and will continue to make enormous financial investments.

Whether I have been speaking to community banks, consumer advocates, or businesses, I have been clear that the purpose of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would be to ensure that everyone plays by the same rules. I said I would not…

We have not reformed the GSEs the way we needed to. We haven't done what needs to be done on the GSEs. This is one large step to doing that, and I believe we should. They are too big and they can take this entire economy down, and that is…

I think the case has been made that Fannie and Freddie are too big. There is no question they are too big. We have also had almost 2 years to deal with it, but we haven't done anything.

The Elko County Board of Commissioners is in unanimous and strong support of the proposed S. 3185

This bill will do two things for Elko County. First: it will convey approximately 300 acres of lands managed by the BLM to Elko County to be used as a dedicated motocross facility.

We appreciate you holding this hearing today.

My legislation provides space for appropriate residential and commercial development, as well as for traditional uses.

The financial markets, I believe, got over-levered. I think lending standards declined.

One of the clarifying points is even if Goldman Sachs did not make it, the executives did.