I support this proposal as a short-term solution to help put money back in the pockets of farmers until prices increase.
This financial State partnership was riven and destroyed by excessive resort to Federal preemption.
These moments are the reason that I and many of my colleagues were enraged by the spectacular failure of consumer protection that destroyed ...
We know now that for 14 years, despite a clear directive from the U.S. Congress, the Federal Reserve Board took no action to ban abusive hom...
Since the very first hearings before this Committee on modernizing our financial regulatory structure, I have said that consumer protection ...
Unfortunately, some opponents of this agency have misrepresented its purpose. The Financial Consumer Protection Agency will not 'regulate cr...
Creating a new agency to fight consumer cons and abuse in alliance with the States, the Federal Government can muster more potent and proact...
We can't have a functioning economy if Harry and Louise can't safely invest and borrow without fear of being cheated by greedy banks and Wal...
This proposal would create a new agency, a very strong financial products watchdog and guardian.
The proposal here to put a floor rather than ceiling on the impact of Federal regulation, I think is a very important one.
I think a point of accountability somewhere that your constituents can call when they have a question or a problem... is tremendously import...
Stronger consumer protection could have stopped this crisis before it started.
What has happened, Senator, and that question is a very good one, is that many nonbanking institutions have, in effect, invoked the shield b...
I agree with you wholeheartedly that this bill is a first draft; it needs refinement, it needs work.
I think there is some agreement that certain products should be banned.
To those who helped create this mess and now plan to flood the airwaves with misleading propaganda, I have just two words for you: Get real.
As a former United States Attorney, I can tell you that organized crime would offer a better deal.
That is why I called for the creation of an independent consumer protection agency whose sole focus is the financial well-being of consumers...
