The lack of regulation of derivatives in various aspects contributed greatly to the financial crisis.
The budget that we have been presented for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ...
at the expense of getting adequate regulation, we are going to turn you into a profit center.
We are not going to go after the end users and all we are talking about is price being made public.
An absence of funding will make all of this invalid.
Of course we should support the legitimate and genuine aspirations for democracy.
Egypt I think has a very good case for democracy. The people in the streets were peaceful.
Each year the Department spends approximately one quarter of its annual budget on procurement.
I also want to thank Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, Mr. Thompson, for being here.
Thank you for having this hearing on such an important issue.
The law that is under assault here this morning has high customer satisfaction across the State.
the need that they need to expand their staff and their technology in order to do this right, to get it right.
I want to thank the Chairman.
But nobody here is advocating an outright repeal.
I appreciate very much your being here, your testimony, and look forward to working with you. I am particularly concerned about the issue of...
I am making a suggestion that if, in fact, we want to get this right, it is going to require the proper analysis, which means that I do thin...
I would like to ask all the witnesses if they have views on H.R. 4889.
We have suffered from excessive rigidity on the part of the regulators.
