The regulators have some culpability here.
As I understand the agreement of Basel III Capital Accords, the agreement and the thrust is to increase the amount of ca...
Wouldn't it be good policy in a free market economy to basically let the world know and the banks know and businesses kn...
Chairman Bair's time in office has been marked by the financial crisis and by profound changes in banking law.
Today, as you said, we will examine the State of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
We delayed it in the United States with support from Senator Shelby and others, and we appreciate that very much.
Since the passage, however, S&P, Standard & Poor, has said that it will confer higher credit ratings on the largest bank...
This I believe is an appropriate time for this hearing as it comes at the end of Chairman Sheila Bair's 5-year term.
I do truly think it is incontestable that the Clean Air Act has produced a much cleaner environment.
It is a very significant matter, and numbers I am seeing are that it costs as much as $90 billion.
But one of the things that is troubling about this to me is the alteration of the normal standard of evaluation of ozone...
I know the Chairman shares a belief that nuclear power can be one of our clean energy sources.
I have learned that some of the EPA proposed Transport Rule was based on incorrect data and assumptions.
President Bush's regulations would drop the mercury emissions 70 percent. Now EPA wants to go to 90 percent.
I do think that we have learned a tremendous amount from this process.
I think we share the interest, Senator Vitter and the Chairman did, that we don't want this to take too long.
I felt very strongly that this accident should not have happened.
Just briefly, there are some concerns that have been expressed to me by people that I respect that live in the area that...
