If we can do it for Wall Street--and we should, when that is necessary--to keep the economy going and to protect the mid...
I support this proposal as a short-term solution to help put money back in the pockets of farmers until prices increase.
I want them to survive, but unless we provide additional support to these farmers.
I hope, again, with your leadership and this Committee's long record of support and commitment to dairy farmers that we ...
opening statement
This is a crisis that affects all of us, not just our dairy farmers.
Dairy farms make up 70% of Connecticut's open space.
We have to find what is common in the interest of these farmers in its price stability.
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 word...
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 wel...
Unfortunately, some opponents of this agency have misrepresented its purpose. The Financial Consumer Protection Agency w...
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, obviously, was working hard from the appropriations side to make sure that that formula was ...
The new agency--a consumer financial guardian--promises to be a powerful watchdog and protector, and a partner of State ...
This financial State partnership was riven and destroyed by excessive resort to Federal preemption.
Since the very first hearings before this Committee on modernizing our financial regulatory structure, I have said that ...