I believe the President has the statutory and constitutional authority to take the action that he is doing to protect this country.

If Congress would not agree to that request, it would be a pretty devastating message that we send to the world.

The statutory authority is the AUMF of 2001, and if you wanted to add something to that, it would probably be the AUMF of 2002.

I can assure you, Senator, that any commitments we made, in contracting or anything else, we will follow the law clearly and consult with Congress.

All the talk that we have here is not going to amount to anything if we actually do not get results out of this process.

We somehow cannot seem to finish it, even though we have got great bipartisan support.

I was one of the advocates back in the 1990s of the privacy notices. I think now we have had this great experiment.

it is really critically important that we understand now one size fits all

I think if we had a greater level of trust between the regulators and the regulated, I think that all of those things would answer the question.

these concerns just add to the weight of overall concerns and I think are resulting in consolidation of our small community banks

the appraisal issue in rural communities is real

We have got to act sooner rather than later because we are losing the lending lines in these institutions.

too big to fail has become too small to succeed.

We're not talking about abstractions. We're talking about real impacts on real people's lives.

I welcome this opportunity to appear before you today to strongly endorse several important bills that have been introduced to address these defects in the law and deficiencies by NHTSA including Chairman McCaskill's comprehensive six-year…

I urge the Committee to assure this small agency is given the funds needed to do its job.

We were trying to wait for Senator Heller. He is en route and will be here momentarily...

it reflects on a culture that is frightening, frankly.