Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"But coming back to the recommendations for specific measures that might have prevented many of these incidents, my view is that we're behind. We've been lax and lagging and the question is why haven't..."

"Thank you, Mr. Hart."

"We need to make sure that the regulatory agencies are not victims of regulatory capture as happened, for example, in the financial industry in 2008."

"We need more investment in infrastructure and the ways to do it, whether it's an infrastructure bank, a railroad trust fund."