How will that help Senator Murkowski's problem in Alaska?
In our democratic system, bank supervisors, toiling in secrecy though they may be, must still answer to the people.
But methadone for opioid use disorder, it has a stigma. It is restricted.
you do not get to write a law that shoves the Fed in a strictly deregulatory direction and then turn around and say, 'Gee, we wish they had ...
So it sounds like to me that this is clearly a case of the fox guarding the henhouse all the way through the system here.
Thank you very much for your leadership and support for S. 462, because I think the workforce shortage issues are really key.
the Fed continues to stonewall Congress, stonewall the public, on the underlying information about these trades.
Independence should not be conflated, however, with a total lack of accountability when the Fed and its leadership make serious mistakes.
the Fed should have used its authority to apply stronger rules to banks with more than $100 billion in assets.
This law severely weakened the guardrails that Congress put in place after the 2008 financial crisis.
To restore public confidence in the Fed, we need a strong, Senate-confirmed inspector general to conduct rigorous, independent oversight.
What it does is create a system that was in place under Dodd-Frank, that for a bank to grow above $50 billion, or above $100 billion, they k...
Twenty years ago the GAO came to Congress, long before I was here, long before Senator Kennedy was here, and said, 'Change it because it is ...
It is past time for us to remove private bankers from this public role.
Do you think that creates a conflict of interest?
Then how could you say there was no evidence that anyone violated the rules? It clearly violated the rules.
That does not make sense, to be honest. And that is a remnant of a really stigmatizing approach to the treatment of people with opioid use d...
I think that the proposal from you and Senator Scott, which I have reviewed, does not go as far as I would like.
