I'm a big fan of regular order, and the way that I think it's supposed to work... was that the Senate would pass a version of a bill.

Oh, absolutely.

We just want to be good bureaucrats and implement the law.

I know how hard it is to get unanimous support in this chamber and on the House floor.

I see no reason to change the policy, Congressman.

I would be happy to take a look at it.

The overwhelming majority of the folks I think who work there just want to be good bureaucrats.

I'm going to try really hard to try and fix that, to tailor regulations to the size and the sophistication of the various entities that we oversee.

I am not required to do that.

I don't like the fact that the CFPB exists. I will be perfectly honest with you.

It was a distribution that was approved while I was on the job.

I think the answer is that the financial crisis was a system failure of major proportion.

I do share your concerns, and maybe we can talk, if somebody wants to, about some of the data security issues that we face, as an agency.

We absolutely have a role to play in eliminating discrimination in the housing market. Yes, sir.

I support consumer financial protection.

I absolutely think that discrimination is abhorrent, and we should fight against it.

It is extraordinarily difficult to reduce the size of a Federal bureaucracy.

Yes, I think we would be able to do that.