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It is time, it is necessary as part of our job to--because we all, in the future, we want to try to avoid these things.

The Obama Administration has been spending a staggering amount of money to fund an economic recovery and stimulus that is slow in coming.

Thank you for appearing before the committee today, for your professionalism, and your service to our country.

What started out last year as a large but temporary stabilization effort has evolved into a permanent government intervention regime.

We have witnessed unprecedented government involvement in the financial markets.

Unemployment has spiked at 9.5 percent and seems headed higher.

Governor Duke, as I think someone else said, the Fed has had the right to regulate unfair and deceptive loans since, I guess, 1994. Is that correct?

I thank the chairman. I thank you for convening this hearing on consumer protection and the role of the Federal Reserve.

The Federal Reserve and other bank regulators have cautioned that the rule changes threaten the viability of the Federal Government's economic recovery plan.

Whether regulatory power and sweeping new powers really should be centralized and given to the Federal Reserve at a time when our country is facing unprecedented fiscal, economic, and monetary policy challenges, we believe, is very…

It is absolutely impossible to make them an independent agency and allow them to function as they are and yet give them the opportunity to guarantee or loan billions of dollars without substantially increasing their accountability and…

We particularly object to what we see is allowing the Fed to become a permanent bailout agency.

I think we all agree that as we go forward, we do need a more transparent institution with a more clearly defined role.

Republicans believe that the Fed's core mission--and I stress this--is to conduct monetary policy and that mission will be seriously undermined if its supervisory responsibilities are dramatically expanded.

This is the perfect storm.

I want to express to you, Devin Nunes, with the diversion of 500,000 what is it, a tremendous amount of water.

The Republican regulatory reform proposal calls for a return to market discipline and an end to bailouts, government intrusions into business, and the government picking winners and losers.

there is a double standard in which top executives are rewarded for failure at the same time that working families are forced to sacrifice.

What we need instead is a strategy to get us out of what we have witnessed in the past 6 months, and that is government command and control of businesses.