Had there been a resolution mechanism as an alternative to what we confronted in September of last year.
Our primary concern is protecting working families in this Nation who have paid the highest and the most unfair price fo...
We need to provide them with the peace of mind to protect the policyholders as well and make sure that our insurance ind...
As chief medical advisor, Dr. Garza, should you be confirmed, you will play a vital role in our Nation's response to the...
The insurance industry provides millions of Americans... with the safety net they need both as individual homeowners, sm...
This discussion, the fundamental difference is that my sense of the 23 or 24 of us that sit on this Committee particular...
I hope that, if you are confirmed, you will not simply be there waiting for the Secretary to ask you for advice.
This will be one of our legislative priorities this year, which is to legislatively beef up the oversight and protection...
The position of Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Homeland Security was created by the Post-Katrina Emergency M...
A council of regulators will provide the necessary perspective and expertise to view our financial system holistically.
There have to be alternatives within those two bookends that give us far more flexibility to respond to these situations...
In our system of Government, elected officials should make decisions about fiscal policy and the use of taxpayers' dolla...
I support the actions the regulators have collectively taken to stabilize the financial system.
Ultimately, I believe if we are able to reach some sort of agreement on systemic risk and whether it can be managed, I s...
The economic crisis introduced a new term to our national vocabulary--systemic risk.
Taxpayers had no choice but to step in, assuming billions of dollars of risk, and save companies because our system wasn...
Handing over the public purse to an enhanced Fed is simply inconsistent with the principles of democratic Government.
Without a new comprehensive resolution regime, we will be forced to repeat the costly ad hoc responses of the past year.