"Would you be in favor of expanding the mandatory reporting features of the current law, analogizing it to some of the child abuse protections that we have?"
"I think that's an important area to consider."
"And I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the Older Americans Act and why it's so important to reauthorize that bill in light of the comments that you've made already."
"it's really very cost effective to reauthorize the Older Americans Act and take stronger action to prevent this kind of abuse."
"I think that, again, the Adam Walsh Act, where we have enhanced at the Federal level the penalties for crimes committed against children, provides a useful model for how we can avoid some of the const..."
"So I think that the more we can impact the awareness and the kind of attention that's given to this problem, as you're doing today, as you've done for a long time, is very, very important."
"I think that the penalty needs to reflect the seriousness of the crime."
"My hope is that this Congress will also reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act."
"I hope this message reaches the super-committee that's been established by the Congress to propose solutions to the debt and the deficit."
"As much as I am in favor of reducing unnecessary and wasteful government spending, and we have to reduce the deficit, we have to reign in the debt, I think we need to do it in smart ways that are also..."
"I will be very blunt, which is that a lot of people would not want what they might see as the embarrassment..."
"One of the questions that really, I think, follows from that comment... what role do you think financial institutions can and should play in the detection of these kinds of problems?"