The Volcker Rule will ensure Federal dollars are no longer used to protect losses from risky trading.
I did an amendment, too, that was--and I would offer it into the record, too, the amendment that did pass, which was two pages long.
But we can't have the same kinds of losses that we suffered in 2008. At least not in my lifetime, I don't want to see them again.
So, look, we know why folks want to kill the Volcker Rule, but, in all honesty, I think it is a good step.
And I applaud the regulators for putting a strong Volcker Rule in place to try to prevent this type of risk-taking going forward.
In Dodd-Frank we tried to, by an amendment, return to the separation of commercial banks from investment banks.
The U.S. posted a record December budget surplus as higher payroll taxes, payments from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and a declining unemploy...
The old saying is that bad facts make for bad law.
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I think this is a public safety issue. We now have 22 States, something that has to be addressed.
we need to have a little lesson in history here