You are supposed to protect your customers' funds separately. Is that right?

MF Global CEO Jon Corzine personally appealed that decision to the SEC, chaired by Chairman Schapiro.

Well, that goes to the heart--and I would be interested in the answer--of the SEC and the CFTC's coordination of the regulation.

I do not know of any--bank or financial institution that has been well capitalized, first; second, well managed and well regulated that has gotten in trouble.

Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Maryland, Ms. Mikulski, for her passion and understanding and intense work on this particular bill. Of course, she extends her passion and intense work on any bill she is involved in. I am so pleased…

Mr. President, I thank the chairman for his remarks and wish to be associated with them. It has been a very bipartisan process that has resulted in this bill coming to the floor, and I am hoping there will only be relevant amendments and…

We have submitted a resolution, because it is Small Business Week, on behalf of myself and Senator Snowe, Senator Pryor, Senator Lieberman, Senator Enzi, Senator Kerry, Senator Brown, Senator Cantwell, Senator Ayotte, Senator Risch…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia be authorized to meet during…

Mr. President, I was not here to hear all of my colleagues' remarks. I know there is a lot of concern about the end of the year and what might happen to try to balance our budget and give us a solid platform on which this economy could…

I think we all do agree that transparency obviously is critical to reducing the risk and creating the efficient markets.

Madam President, to mark the occasion of President Obama's Camp David G8 Summit focusing, in part, on the problem of food security in Africa, I want to take this opportunity to address the necessity for the United States to help foster…

I think much of what we did was a punt to you guys.

Is there a pressure, though, to define what has occurred here in such a way that you may end up in the short term making a piece of legislation look good?

Reverse auction incentives could be established for varying technologies to drive industry competition and innovation.

If, on the other hand, the members of the U.S. Senate trouble themselves to study, or at least read, the text of the Law of the Sea Treaty, they would immediately see it for what it really is: a diplomatic dinosaur, a throwback to a bygone…

I think this violates basic free trade principles.

Mr. President, what I would like to talk about this afternoon is a bit about the President's economic record. I am sure Americans have noticed the President barely mentions this economic record when he is out on the campaign trail, and I…

In this piece, Larry Kudlow, a noted economist, notes that with respect to this ``taxmageddon''--the increase in everybody's taxes at the end of this year--it is the uncertainty of it all that is preventing the investment by business which…