Now I think it is long past time that Congress finally acts, and I have bipartisan legislation with Senator Scott to do that.

Right. OK. So this chummy little group is making a lot of policy here, and nobody else gets to see it.

Then how could you say there was no evidence that anyone violated the rules? It clearly violated the rules.

the tailoring rules meant that Silicon Valley Bank, for example, did not have to do a lot of incredibly important things.

I have got an idea, a bipartisan idea that I am introducing with Senator Rick Scott today: get the big bankers off the Federal Reserve boards of directors.

The actions of the Chair of the Federal Reserve and a Governor of the Federal Reserve were unambiguously inconsistent with the Fed's rules.

I think that the proposal from you and Senator Scott, which I have reviewed, does not go as far as I would like.

This is not strong oversight. In fact, it is not even competent oversight.

So it sounds like to me that this is clearly a case of the fox guarding the henhouse all the way through the system here.

we don't need to attack NEPA. We need better road signs, better drivers, a better road.

capitalism without competition isn't capitalism; it's exploitation

A vision without funding is a hallucination. You need--if you get the tools, you will be able to help families.

How will that help Senator Murkowski's problem in Alaska?

But methadone for opioid use disorder, it has a stigma. It is restricted.

I am of the opinion, as are many of my colleagues on this side, that reinstating the Dodd-Frank regulatory requirements on mid-sized banks, that were rolled back in 2018 by Republicans, is really critical.

For any Senators who wish to ask additional questions for the record, they will be due in 10 business days, on June 1st at 5.00 p.m.

Right now, our project development systems in the country, it is like a car moving slowly down a bumpy road.

S. 2155 weakened the rules and the supervision for these banks like SVB and opened the deregulatory door for the Fed to drive a truck through.