Required clearing of interest rate and credit index swaps between financial entities begins next month.
For the first time, the public is benefiting from seeing the price and volume of each swap transaction.
For the first time, the public will benefit from specific oversight of swap dealers.
Climate change is not political, and we make it political at our own risk.
I don't accept that the present budget process is at all responsive to this new world of climate change.
We are in far better shape than we were 2 years ago.
I thank you for inviting me to today's hearing on implementation of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Ac...
The CFTC now oversees the derivatives marketplace--across both futures and swaps.
As important as it was that we broke through and actually did get an infrastructure bill last Congress, it was for only 2 years because it w...
Since when should we give people who use the roads a pass on paying for those roads?
It amazes me how little innovation there has been in the work we have done in financing infrastructure.
I am grateful to this panel for all of your very specific testimony and ideas.
In almost 50 years in intelligence, I don't remember that we've had a more diverse array of threats and crisis situations around the world t...
There has never been a time in our history--and he has been around for 40 years--when the threats are so great and diverse as they are today...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My only concern is, if these systems are really as old and presumably unreliable as is implied by this columnist, I...
Today I made the decision that it was the best thing for our country, for the American people that I not continue to be considered by the pr...
That is a fine date, Mr. Chairman. We will either be over the cliff or not by that time.
I have been an aficionado of public-private projects in my own Subcommittee on Economic Development.
