"Evidence that has surfaced since then has shown exactly that. Absolutely, there was incompetence at the top of the bank."
"However, I am amazed in my short two and a half years here in Congress to see we have government agency on top of government agency with regulator upon regulator, with more regulation than we know wha..."
"Banks fail. That is a fact. But on March 10, Silicon Valley Bank failed nearly overnight."
"In fact, am I to understand it correctly, that it moved it from $250, but at $250 it was mandated that you do X."
"the notion that Americans, like Ms. Hayward and others, have to deal with the frightening reality of identity theft is something that we have to take very seriously"
"Blaming SVB's collapse on environmental social governance investing or diversity equity and inclusion initiatives is nonsense."
"We should actually hold the regulators and the government agencies to the same standards that we hold the businesses to."
"The fact that there have not been any resignations or any firings at the top of the Fed and the FDIC is unfortunate."
"any steps that we might take that would potentially limit the resources available to the Social Security Administration could have the exact opposite effect of what we are trying to address"
"These are people--these are Americans who go to work every day to serve their fellow American citizens."
"some of the cuts that could be proposed... could force the agency to close field offices and lay off, quite literally, thousands of people"
"In my first few years in Washington, one thing has been clear, government agencies are not good at taking accountability for their failures."
"Many of us had encouraged this Administration to get, whether it was TOW missiles, other arms, in earlier prior to the conflict, so that it could not be used as a view toward escalation, that the Unit..."
"The lack of self-awareness or accountability knows no bounds with this crew."
"My Republican colleagues' continued focus on wokeness in banking also suggests that they see improving economic opportunities for people of color and investing in minority-owned businesses as a bad th..."
"To avoid this, we need better interagency coordination."
"General Counsel Abruzzo is disregarding the plain text of the NLRA and Supreme Court precedent in order to tilt the scales in favor of unions and undermine employee free choice and employer rights."
"However, PBMs, it seems like, has evolved into middlemen with an outsized role in the pharmaceutical marketplace."
