Richard Shelby

You can make a difference, and I believe you are taking that job to make a difference.

Housing goes to the very essence of a family, family and opportunities and a neighborhood and then a town or a city and a Nation.

I think you are very wise to go on a listening tour.

To exercise some moral and legal oversight to assure that there is no unfairness against those individuals.

I think would be drastically unfair.

The job of the Attorney General is to do justice, not necessarily to win a case.

Jeff's commitment to upholding the rule of law I believe is unparalleled.

I have the highest regard not only for his intellect but for his integrity.

Immunology kind of transcends it all.

I hope I am responsive to the American people----not just to you.

This was fraud--fraud that you did not find or fraud that you did not fix quickly enough.

I have often said that banking is based on trust, and that trust was broken at Wells Fargo.

The technology available today is better than ever before and will enable us to produce very detailed maps.

Today, most homeowners do not understand the true flood risk to their property.

For years, right here I have advocated for a Flood Insurance Program that uses the best science and data to map properties so that both the Government and the homeowners fully understand the risk of flooding.

I think multilateral action is always much more effective than the United States going alone.

Policies like that would drive our economy off a cliff and endanger working families in our country.

However, the Fed's frequently incorrect predictions of interest rate increases have caused it to lose some credibility among some quarters.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is an independent agency. That is the way we want it to be.

I sincerely hope you begin work on a corporate political spending disclosure rule.

I hope you as Chairman of the SEC or any agency would not react to generated mail from Republicans or Democrats but would do what is best for the country and also under your jurisdiction.

I hope we can count on you and your team for additional assistance when needed as they make more requests.

We only need to look at U.S. economic history to see how thinly capitalized banks have . . . made our financial system vulnerable to unanticipated economic shocks and how a crisis in the banking system quickly infects the rest of our…

We also need stronger, simpler rules that cannot be gamed by Wall Street economists or watered down by Wall Street lobbying.

The financial crisis has had a real and deep impact on working families.