I hope my colleagues will support my legislation to require Americans to register if they go to a war zone.

The rating agencies inflated mortgage-backed securities and other asset-based securities, and that this was a primary cause of the 2008 financial crisis.

The system we have now would be for baseball as if the home team selected the umpire.

We need bond rating agencies and we need reliable ones.

If I am in a bond fund, they send me a list of all of the bonds they own and the ratings.

The people think that the most important institutions at the national level are the President and Congress. I believe that they are the Federal Reserve, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), and the bond rating agencies.

Americans say the economy is the most important thing. In a free market system, the allocation of capital is the most important thing in the economy.

To say that things should be deliberately confusing shows a contempt for ordinary Americans.

I strongly disagree with Mr. Linnell when he says that it is just fine if a rating is expressed as big A, small A, three, epsilon, omega, or something else equally confusing.

I am honored to have you here. And I am thrilled to say the words, 'Secretary Fudge.'

I want to thank the chairwoman for noticing that bill for this hearing.

I want to commend Rashida Tlaib for talking about the effect on our planet.