"The Dodd-Frank Act has gone a long way to addressing, I think, some of the issues that caused the financial crisis."
"I think that would be a very, very misguided approach."
"For this to happen, though, and I repeat again and again, the SEC needs the resources to do their job effectively."
"The proposed settlement would fundamentally alter the regulation of our banks, yet this would be done without congressional involvement."
"The proposed settlement appears to be an attempt to advance the Administration's political agenda rather than an effort to help homeowners."
"I warned that the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection would prove to be an unaccountable and unbridled bureaucracy."
"The long-term consequences of this settlement could be even more serious. It would politicize our financial system."
"I want to complement you for caring for the mission of this subcommittee and the mission of this full committee."
"There is nothing more important to the competitiveness of this Nation than a qualified workforce."
"I abhor an uneven playing field. I think it is just ludicrous."
"But jobs could grow every year. You can see jobs growing every year with technology inventions."
"One of the major benefits is to be able to keep these technologies here, keep the innovation here in the U.S., manufacture the technologies here, and create jobs here."
"One slip-up can cause a loss of life, and I think this is a process of security that we should continue our oversight on."
"I think it is important when the agency itself constructively looks back what maybe, if you will, a regulation that has been utilized sufficiently and there is stark and non-debatable evidence that we..."
"The Taylor Rule would call for a Fed funds rate of about 1 percent right now."
"But before the oil--well, we have not actually had supply disruptions. We have had major political turmoil that gives rise to worries about potential supply disruption."
"I think when the Fed, indirectly through bank intermediaries, nevertheless directly is effectively purchasing the debt that we are issuing on a massive scale, something on the order of two-thirds of t..."
"One of the things that concerns me is that the strategy itself is designed, in part, to raise inflation expectations."
