It seems to me you get, like in the thrift crisis years ago, the regulator becomes also the one that also deals with these resolutions.
The administration had expressed reservations about the amendment. They came to us and asked for modifications.
People are furious right now, and they should be.
But shouldn't that have raised a red flag? You are the experts in this area, and you were watching people get loans with...
A year later, taxpayers are forced to pump billions of dollars into our major banking institutions to keep them afloat.
There were hundreds of thousands of bad loans. Hundreds of thousands of them.
We do not have a table big enough.
We are going to want to have as many conversations as we can with you as we move forward on how to develop these ideas.
A year ago, this Committee heard from witnesses on two separate occasions that the banking system was sound.
The alternative was losing, in my view, the entire section on executive excessive compensation. Given the choice -- this...
When I left the Senate, it was not in there. So, when I wrote the language, there was no such language like that. I can'...