Of course, you know my focus has been and continues to be on rural veterans.
During my tenure, I think the VA got exponentially better--starting with Secretary Peake--and I think that Secretary Shinseki continues alon...
We need to do a better job at helping our veterans find work.
Friends are the most valuable commodity you can have--easiest to lose and hardest to get.
If you design your contracts better, what would stop them from going to Europe or China?
If you can do things in the marketplace to stop artificially inflating or artificially deflating the price of wheat--and I am much more conc...
When it does not converge--convergence is where you want to be.
I go back every weekend because it is much easier to be a farmer.
The convergence problem is big in Chicago.
So these future contracts are based on real grain.
Who loses when there is no convergence?
For years, the neighborhood has been talking about the fact that the Chicago Board of Trade has been playing poker with our livelihood.
I think that we all want to get the maximum bang for the buck when it comes to taxpayer dollars and when it comes to contracting.
When you have unemployment rates that rise well above 50 percent, in some cases 80 percent, it would be nice to give those folks fishing pol...
Are we doing the same thing to the community banks that you just talked about to the Wall Street banks?
The proposal provides authority for the agency to collect annual fees or assessments. How do you see this impacting smaller financial instit...
I think the regulators are a bit paranoid at this point in time and they don't want to have any failure on their watch.
You need to be regulated, but you are not the ones that caused the problem.
