I am grateful to him for introducing me today.

I do not support that component.

I think if the record was ever written about how this provision came about, let me just assure you that there was robust discussion about whether nonbanks should be SIFI designated.

I actually think FSOC has improved its performance.

I think one of the concerns that Senator Crapo, Senator Corker, Senator Warren, and I have all had is that this designation of SIFI should not be a Hotel California where you can never de-designate.

I do think there have been some movements in the right direction on transparency and ensuring that those transparency requirements are going to last into future administrations.

Let me just in my last remaining moments say that another area of great concern has been the whole question around insurance designations--obviously AIG, one of the firms that caused the crisis in 2008.

I continue to believe is that size is not necessarily the guiding factor on a SIFI designation. It should be the underlying activities, not simply the size itself.

between 2006 and 2014, Medicare spending on opioids went up from $1.5 billion to $3.9 billion

A lot of challenges with opioids. We are seeing them all across the Nation.

This is not opioid-specific. This is general systemwide improvement to try to track, right?

I think sometimes it is forgotten how Metro actually is organized and paid for.

We need both. We need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, and we need leadership that can do the same.

I think we have arrived to the point where there are now three crises that have to be managed and can't be ignored.

You can't have temporary leadership forever.

A real confidence-building measure from Congress' point of view.

But that lack of communication is directly related to a management structure, how Metro is organized.

I mean, after everything we're talking about, after four studies going on, the idea that somebody--that we wouldn't put operations as central to the mission of a new general manager boggles the mind.