Edward Royce actually said...

"If we are going to assume that you have special powers-- shouldn't we at least assume that you would be able to get to the bottom of a leverage ratio and enforce it?"

"We need layers of protection--capital is one part of it, but multiple other layers are absolutely essential to protect the American taxpayer, our financial system and our economy from this ever happen..."

"The problem we have with Dodd-Frank is that it did not solve too-big-to-fail; it compounded it."

"We estimate that the Royce-McCarthy legislation would inject $13 billion into new capital and to small businesses in the first year after enactment and create 140,000 new jobs, all at no cost to taxpa..."