John Ensign: “I hope that is what the financial regulatory reform focuses on.”

S. Res. 85 received the same amount of consideration that a bill to name a post office has. This legislation was hotlined.

It is much easier to get re-elected when you are giving money away, basically.

This is a very important hearing today and I want to thank all of our witnesses who have taken the time out of their schedules to testify.

The House bill needs to be the floor for what we accomplish out of this process. The House bill isn't nearly enough, and we cannot allow this process to capture a modest improvement in the name of compromise by watering it down to a…