I believe you're going to be confirmed. You're certainly going to have my support.
I had an interesting conversation the other day with a senior member of the New York Stock Exchange.
So several people have spoken to the role of the AAA rating as being borrowed or used, if you will.
I am not sure this point has really been addressed.
I just wanted to make sure I captured your comment correctly, that the credit default swaps were the great enabler of the major financial me...
I will say it is kind of a sad commentary on our regulatory system if all it takes is changing the name from insurance to swap in order to b...
There has been discussion about whether you could have categorized credit default swaps as insurance.
Could I ask one other question, Mr. Chairman? How would you three propose paying for it?
There is a group of people who don't complain at all about their health coverage in this country and that's Members of Congress.
Finding this right niche on the public and private side is going to be key.
What Claude Pepper suggested on a number of occasions is starting a model so that people on a voluntary basis could start putting aside mone...
I want you three and the advocates who have come here today to know that we're going to have some advocates at the White House tomorrow pros...
the first bipartisan universal coverage bill we've had in the history of the Senate, we take two baby steps.
I think it is fair to say that I wouldn't have any Republican sponsors on the Healthy Americans Act if I had tilted this effort to the publi...
You won't get much disagreement on that.
the model that is included or embodied in the CLASS Act that Senator Kennedy has introduced.
What has been so troubling about the discussions in the past is you see volumes and volumes written on everything except long-term care.
You can't turn it all over to the government. You can't just have a government-run operation.
