We should change our Constitution and say if you come here illegally and you have a child, that child's automatically not a citizen.
A sharp near-term reduction in our fiscal deficit is probably neither practical, nor advisable.
the legislation, together with stronger regulatory standards for bank capital and liquidity now being developed, will place our financial sy...
the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has provided what I think is a reasonable range of estimates of the effects of the ARRA on macroeconom...
the Federal Reserve has been involved a long time in developing better ways of transmitting remittances.
I think we do still have options, but they are not going to be the conventional options and so we need to look at them carefully and make su...
We have brought interest rates down close to zero. We have had a number of programs to stabilize financial markets.
Congress certainly has an oversight role.
You are absolutely right.
It was very important that we have at least some flexibility in order to negotiate and collaborate with our international colleagues.
I think we ought to be shooting for a sustainable path, 3 percent, maybe even less, of GDP as a deficit.
Uncertainty and other factors.
the available economic evidence suggests that the tax reductions and increases in transfers for households have likely provided support to c...
I do, and I think that view is widely shared.
I think it will be important for us to develop as many criteria, clear criteria as we possibly can.
we have seen many financial institutions improve their remittance services and use that as a way of attracting the interest of minority or i...
What we have to determine is which firms are systemically critical.
During initial Senate consideration of financial regulatory reform legislation, I was very concerned that State-chartered community banks an...