Let me make sure I understand the answer to the question. You know of no instance in which a banker has alleged that there was retribution, and if there was--and since there was not, there has been no evidence that there has been a…

While you are in the chair, Mr. Brown, let me thank you for the cooperation that you have extended to me and working to get S. 635 accomplished.

I know that as we look at our budget for Social Security and Medicare, and programs like SNAP, this is going to have an impact on them.

I agree this is a critically important issue.

There is discussion, as you know, about savings in general and our still-low rate of savings in this country and how it affects the economy.

It has been 15 years since then-Congressman Portman and I recognized that we had a significant problem in our economy.

Recently, Senator Warren and I actually introduced a bill that we hope will get hot-lined soon.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Kansas (Mr…

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Kansas (Mr…

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Kansas (Mr…

we keep saying these things, and yet if this keeps going, the whole nature of small institutions being able to served particularly rural communities is going to disappear.

But it is happening. I mean, community bank after community bank, when you take--you look at the one place that is expanding is the regulatory staff, which, again, back to Ms. Hunter's comment, makes them in a very competitive market even…

I just want to publicly say I look forward to working with you and other Members of this Committee to do this kind of at a macro level, because it really needs to be done.

I think the regulators have kind of--echoing what Senator Moran said, with the best practices approach, have used what was intended for large institutions to creep down to smaller.

Can you get me data on how many call and how you respond to that?

We ask the Senate to pass Senator King's bill, which is cosponsored by Senators Warner and Tester, so that lawyer trust accounts held at federally insured credit unions have insurance coverage on par with that of FDIC-insured banks.

I cannot understand why the Ranking Member did not list my bipartisan legislation as well in that litany, the RELIEVE Act.

Nobody should underestimate how hard it is to deal with this crisis.