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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· Jun 14, 2011

Bringing transparency and accountability to this market is essential, and that is why I am glad we are having this oversight hearing.

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Richard Lugar
@richardlugar· Republican · IN· Jun 14, 2011

the idea of transparency is very important, trading on exchanges, but is there any potential differentiation between the sophisticated bankers and regular businesses and farmers?

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Bob Corker
@bobcorker· Republican · TN· Jun 14, 2011

The risk retention piece, I thought, was ridiculous, and I think it is going to have tremendous effects on our securitization market.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Jun 14, 2011

My concern--and it sounds like you are echoing this--is that we essentially put home ownership out of reach of families.

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Pat Roberts
@patroberts· Republican · KS· Jun 14, 2011

I think this Committee has to continue our strong oversight responsibility.

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Pat Roberts
@patroberts· Republican · KS· Jun 14, 2011

If CFTC has done the analytical work, would you please provide it to this Committee?

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John Boozman
@johnboozman· Republican · AR· Jun 14, 2011

I do not think that Chairman Gensler knows what all these 31 working groups and 51 regulations are going onto the detail that we would like to know.

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Pat Toomey
@pattoomey· Republican · PA· Jun 14, 2011

I look at Dodd-Frank as an incredible exercise of laziness by Congress where basically Congress punted all the tough decisions to regulators.

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Pat Roberts
@patroberts· Republican · KS· Jun 14, 2011

I think it would be interesting to have a panel here with Mr. Conner and then have Ms. Born and then Mr. Cooper.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Jun 14, 2011

Do you believe that the position limits that are being proposed by the CFTC will raise costs for smaller investors who have money in commodity mutual funds?

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Richard Lugar
@richardlugar· Republican · IN· Jun 14, 2011

Does this create such a burden that U.S. firms are likely to be competitively affected?

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Jun 14, 2011

If there is a farmers co-op out there that poses a systemic risk to the economy, I have not bumped into it yet.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jun 14, 2011

American consumers will now have to pay more for basic banking services, while big-box retailers go off and count their unjustified profits.

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Bob Corker
@bobcorker· Republican · TN· Jun 14, 2011

The fact is, that is not the case. I mean, the big just get bigger when we regulate the way that we have.

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Bob Corker
@bobcorker· Republican · TN· Jun 14, 2011

I would just close by saying that I know you guys have 300 rulemakings to make, and I know in many cases you feel like you are making them too quickly, trying to meet deadlines.

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Gary Gensler
@garygensler· Democratic · DC· Jun 14, 2011

I am committed to take a look in November to see if there are things that we should do.

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