I submit it as one I am familiar with, which illustrates my impatience with--your impatience with the GAO report.
It is routine for Federal agencies to attack the investigator. Everybody does it.
I have been on this committee for 20 years. I have never seen you come back to this committee and say to the committee, we have new specific...
What a beautiful courthouse, the Prettyman Courthouse is.
So meeting with people all the time is not responsive to my question.
I don't think you were doing us any favor, Mr. Peck.
I think, frankly, this would have to be a little bit more evidence-based, if we saw something in our futures markets we oversee or a whistle...
I think that there are a number of things that have changed in our marketplace, and you have addressed one important one.
We have come forward with proposals. These are not final rules, but we have proposed that exchanges and clearinghouses have to have new pre-...
I think the downside is if we do not protect our markets, the price discovery and the integrity of these markets are weakened.
I think our financial system failed in part because our regulatory system failed in 2008.
I voted for the rule. I did because I think Congress mandated that we do it, but I also believe that it helps promote the integrity of marke...
I do not think that there is any taxpayer money behind this.
No, I think this was an example, actually, of a financial institution having the freedom to fail.
I thank you for inviting me here today to talk about the changing nature of the derivatives markets and on position limit rules.
8 million Americans are out of work today because of that.
I think we saw some of the downside of weak regulation in 2008.
I think at our core is to ensure that the markets are free of manipulation and fraud.
