Opening statement of Chairman Dodd
We are terribly disappointed in this particular case for the reasons you have heard this morning.
So merely someone saying to you, creating this fiction, in a sense, that FINRA all of a sudden has to stop everything, y...
If we missed Madoff, it seems to me we have got to go back and revisit that whole model, don't you agree?
We want some action very quickly in this area.
I personally would.
In effect, then, you become worthless, in a sense. What is the purpose at this point? Creating that kind of a fiction me...
I hope that we on the Senate side--I know in the House the number of military projects in the stimulus is small relative...
Even so, words of caution. There's still the potential for setbacks. This is not an irreversible situation.
Previously, many of us on this committee urged you and others to give a lot of attention and respect with regard to deci...
I think it's incumbent upon us to find imaginative ways to do that...
The idea that the United States cannot send people abroad to serve our interests, and can become familiar with a languag...
I hope, finally, we're really going to do something about it, because it's just--it's stunning, really, the--almost--it'...
Obviously, Mexico is terribly important. But Brazil is as important.
We must work together to address the challenges we face.
We're very fortunate, indeed, to have two people of extreme ability and talent joining this administration.
I think there is a sense that there are potential partners here...
I have a very strong view that the investment in aid programs and development programs, in the long run, is the way that...
