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The reality is that, if people were losing their jobs, this would be standardized.

There is no accountability across the Federal Government in my view. No one is responsible.

I mean, to me this hearing is astounding, honestly. And I hate to admit but in the 4 1/2 years that I have been here, this is not the only Government agencies that we are hearing, testifying in front of a Congress saying they are…

How many people across the Government have been fired over this problem?

This makes no sense to me. These investments are some of the safest investments in the world.

This is about the ultimate family at the end of the day.

How can you avoid a systemically important designation, how can you make sure you do not wind up with that if they do not know what the rules are?

The Fed should be independent and it ought to make independent monetary policy decisions, particularly in the short term, but the Fed was created by Congress.

I think when the American people look at the financial crisis and the response to the financial crisis, frankly, they are mad.

In the State of Indiana where I live, $2.5 billion is more than real money. It is shocking money.

I want a guarantee that says, here is what history says, we are still having hearings on massive amount of issues.

It just surprises me, Mr. Chairman, that we sit here time and time again and we hear it.

I rise to speak but first want to acknowledge and thank my colleague Senator Collins for allowing me to step ahead of her in this process. I promise to be expeditious in terms of getting through this. It turns out her plane to Maine leaves…

I know you share my concerns with income inequality and the continuing trend of middle-class wage stagnation.

I could point out waste of the day, waste of the hour, or waste of the minute, thanks to GAO and other investigative agencies that have pointed out that we have a dysfunctional government and we are wasting taxpayer dollars faster than we…

We have a bloated, bureaucratic, dysfunctional government that tries to do--with real intent, good intent--more than it can handle.

We know about hungry veterans. We know about hungry seniors and hungry kids. When are we going to stop talking and do something?

I think we ought to have a White House conference on food, nutrition, and hunger because I do think that is the place where all these different ideas which fall under the jurisdiction of multiple committees can come together, and we can…