I supported the amendment.

The area of too big to fail, very important to a lot of us and I hope to you.

There has got to be a balance, has there not?

That would be very unusual, would it not?

I understand that you believe you were not legally required to hold panels for this rule because the Federal Reserve Board proposed the rule.

We had a lot of problems in the mortgage market in the last decade.

I rise today in opposition to the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Richard Cordray to be the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Earlier this year, I and 44 of my colleagues sent a letter to the President…

But making you larger does not make you better, does it?

For much too long, we have sacrificed the voice of the people on the altar of regulatory independence.

Dodd-Frank contains many flaws, but the failure to improve the accountability of our financial regulators may be its greatest shortcoming.

This massive new bureaucracy was designed by the drafters of Dodd-Frank to be virtually unaccountable to the American people.

Over the last year, it appears that the Securities and Exchange Commission has been operating as a no-doc regulator.