Overdraft protection loses its meaning if consumers are at greater risk with that protection than without it.

Our job on the Banking Committee is to make sure that regular folks get a fair deal from their banks.

This ought to be delegated to a responsible regulatory body to provide the kind of protections.

That argument is baloney, that argument, and, frankly, the argument now that we are going to do away with free checking and other things.

We also urge the Senate to enact Senator Dodd's legislation to create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

fee-based overdraft lending traps consumers in astronomically expensive debt and deprives families of money that they need to meet their basic needs.

That is not a deterrent. That is not a service. That is a debt trap.

I am angry now in a sense that they took advantage of that request in here.

It seems to me it is----

But banks often add overdraft coverage to consumer accounts without informing them or giving them a choice.

Abusive overdraft policies are blatantly unfair. And the banks know it.

Yes. And so had you been notified more promptly, you would have dealt with it.

If they wanted to deter overdrafting, they would deny the transactions on debit cards at the ATM.

Last week, the Federal Reserve announced that they will require banks to get a customer's consent before enrolling them in an overdraft coverage program.

The Obama administration has recently committed to ending homelessness among veterans within 5 years, and I commend that commitment.

It's a matter of fairness for workers, in my view, and it's a matter of safety for all others.

I am encouraged by the partnerships being forged between the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Veterans' Administration.

I wish he could have been here today to help make this case. He cared very deeply about this issue.

According to the Center for Disease Control, an individual who comes to work with H1N1 will infect 10 percent of his or her coworkers.

Is it the Administration's view that you would support the Healthy Families Act? Is that true?

Ensuring that workers have paid leave makes the decision to stay home much easier for employees who are struggling to pay the bills.

Living with a Petri dish is usually a fascinating experience.

Of course you're--then, with the inconsistency, in a way, obviously, of recommending these policies, and yet we don't really have an overall strategy.

Families are anxious about this pandemic and are frustrated that vaccines remain unavailable.

Now, one of the issues I've heard raised is that, in some of these countries, the political community have passed legislation prohibiting the exportation of the vaccines outside until all of their needs are being met domestically.