I can't imagine us having a universal healthcare reform package and not including a long-term support and services for people.
Someone made, I thought, a very wise suggestion. And that is to begin, in Medicare, providing screening and prevention to people at the age ...
Thank you to our panel of witnesses. You are just excellent witnesses and are providing a tremendously valuable service.
I think it is critical if we are going to have universal care that we provide long-term care and services and support.
We're going to have to make a choice, in a sense. Maybe the political equivalency or the economic equivalency of wearing a hair shirt if we ...
I appreciate that very much.
First of all, Mr. Vice President, let me thank you for your 30 years of effort in this regard.
I appreciate your emphasis on Brazil, and talking about Brazil. And obviously they've done some remarkable things.
I think that President Obama's leadership, which has already been manifested in his statement, just 2 days ago, can, itself, be an important...
I would like the SEC and FINRA to report every 3 months to this Committee on actions that you are taking to improve the effectiveness of exa...
In effect, then, you become worthless, in a sense. What is the purpose at this point? Creating that kind of a fiction merely then avoids any...
There seems to have been a glaring missed obligation regarding this matter that went on so long with so many flags being raised.
I personally would.
We want some action very quickly in this area.
If we missed Madoff, it seems to me we have got to go back and revisit that whole model, don't you agree?
So merely someone saying to you, creating this fiction, in a sense, that FINRA all of a sudden has to stop everything, you cannot--do you be...
We are terribly disappointed in this particular case for the reasons you have heard this morning.
Opening statement of Chairman Dodd
