I think there is some agreement that certain products should be banned.

Unfortunately, some opponents of this agency have misrepresented its purpose. The Financial Consumer Protection Agency will not 'regulate credit.' It will not make choices for consumers or deny them access to products and services.

Stronger consumer protection could have stopped this crisis before it started.

I think a point of accountability somewhere that your constituents can call when they have a question or a problem... is tremendously important.

We can't have a functioning economy if Harry and Louise can't safely invest and borrow without fear of being cheated by greedy banks and Wall Street firms.

The proposal here to put a floor rather than ceiling on the impact of Federal regulation, I think is a very important one.

This financial State partnership was riven and destroyed by excessive resort to Federal preemption.

I agree with you wholeheartedly that this bill is a first draft; it needs refinement, it needs work.

What changes is society, not the Constitution, and there are certainly, as we all know, problems that come up in our society that the Framers had no idea of.

I had a conversation with my Senate colleague from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, recently, and she was talking about this great interest she has in this, a light or high speed rail system between Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio with stops…

As Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over Federal transit and housing programs, I intend for the Committee to lead the discussion about how we can create a transportation system that doesn't add to our…

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