This budget could have been an opportunity, I believe, for NASA to boldly support human exploration after years of budget requests, in which I believe it was short changed.

Dodd-Frank's stated intent is to protect consumers, but some of the regulations promulgated in response to the law have gone so far, they may actually prevent qualified consumers from owning a home.

The bottom line is you need more money; is that right?

The Council has the authority to designate a nonbank institution as 'systemically important' and subject it to enhanced prudential standards and regulation by the Federal Reserve.

I asked him if he would oppose a statutory process to allow a firm working with the Council to avoid the designation before the designation was made final.

I urge you to continue that advocacy in international negotiations to preserve our regulators' authority.

I believe that FSOC has a heightened duty to be as transparent and judicious as possible.

This new layer of regulation does not come without a cost to our economy.

I believe that 5 years is long enough to know if an arbitrary threshold is appropriate and whether or not it should be changed.

if you are too big to fail and you are too big to regulate, maybe you are too big to exist.

I think we should make changes. What I am not interested in making changes is groups of people coming in saying, 'Get them, not us. We are not them.'

I do not think that regional banks are in that kind of business, but they do have a risk exposure.