As chief medical advisor, Dr. Garza, should you be confirmed, you will play a vital role in our Nation's response to the H1N1 outbreak, whic...
I hope that, if you are confirmed, you will not simply be there waiting for the Secretary to ask you for advice.
The position of Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Homeland Security was created by the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act...
A council of regulators will provide the necessary perspective and expertise to view our financial system holistically.
Ultimately, I believe if we are able to reach some sort of agreement on systemic risk and whether it can be managed, I strongly believe that...
I appreciate my friend and colleague's comments, because he is on track and I agree with him.
Without a new comprehensive resolution regime, we will be forced to repeat the costly ad hoc responses of the past year.
Handing over the public purse to an enhanced Fed is simply inconsistent with the principles of democratic Government.
Taxpayers had no choice but to step in, assuming billions of dollars of risk, and save companies because our system wasn't set up to withsta...
The economic crisis introduced a new term to our national vocabulary--systemic risk.
What powers? Just identifying who is going to be a systemic risk is an important question.
I share my colleagues' concerns about giving the Fed additional authority to regulate systemic risk.
Wall Street's failures have hit Main Streets across the country.
I support the actions the regulators have collectively taken to stabilize the financial system.
In our system of Government, elected officials should make decisions about fiscal policy and the use of taxpayers' dollars, not unelected ce...
There have to be alternatives within those two bookends that give us far more flexibility to respond to these situations.
I am prepared to make some of these investments provided we get some results.
I am frustrated--that is a mild word to use--that we even have to hold this hearing at all.
