Thank you very much, Senator.
So a single phone call, a single letter, would have exposed this for what this was----
There can be no excuse for that colossal failure. But I demand--the victims of this fraud...demand--an explanation.
I appreciate your invitation to testify on my experiences with the SEC with regard to the Bernard Madoff scandal.
I support the President in his efforts to withdraw American forces from Iraq in the most responsible and rapid means pos...
They wanted an investigation.
The question is how do you do this. We all recognize the problem. Now what is the answer?
We need to restore honesty and integrity to our financial system.
We appreciate that very much. And let me just say we appreciate very much as well the Administration's continuing conver...
Instead of helping people understand risk, it was hiding risk, in effect, too often and relying on the people who paid t...
It's clear that we need to end charter shopping, where institutions look around for the regulator that will go easiest o...
I do support merging OCC and OTS.
Last week I suggested further consolidation of bank regulators would make a lot of sense.
I really do not see that as a symptom of the fact that you have four different regulators overseeing different charters ...
Let me interrupt here. I want to make sure I get Senator Bennett in before the vote.
What we are trying to do here is fashion, obviously, a piece of legislation that comprehensively deals with all of this,...
The most common argument is not that it's a bad idea--it's that consolidation is too politically difficult.
That shouldn't govern what decision is made.
