I want to welcome our witnesses to today's hearing, the Federal Government's Role in Empowering Americans to Make Inform...
Thank you, Director Thompson.
I am here to express my full support for Judge Kobayashi's nomination to the district court of Hawaii.
I think the two examples you gave are really important examples of the way that the legislation that you worked on, I th...
Financial literacy is an issue that is even more important as working families struggle financially.
I would like to ask you another question, Assistant Secretary Barr. The level of home ownership in Hawaii is one of the ...
I am proud of the innovative work that the Hawaii Council on Economic Education has done.
Thank you very much, Director, for your statement.
It is going to make a significant, positive difference for our country.
But there will be, I think, some need for the Senate, Members of Congress, to keep an eye on that process.
This is a great day for the United States of America, and we need to take advantage of this opportunity and really move ...
We as the securities regulators were greatly dismayed when we saw the opportunity to police that particular product leav...
I must tell you, it is moving and expanding and it looks good to me.
We need to impose a standard that the industry make these full disclosures.
I am also proud to have included an amendment in the Dodd-Frank bill to provide clarified SEC authority for pre-sale dis...
I feel this has been a good hearing on the day that we passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection ...
the first responsibility of the Federal Government is to ensure that the financial marketplace supports that goal.
I would like to commend SSA for establishing a research program, the Financial Literacy Research Consortium (FLRC), as p...