Johnny Isakson

I will give you the historical data.

I am proud to be a cosponsor, along with Senators Bingaman and Kohl, of the Lifetime Income Disclosure Act.

Our bill will increase financial literacy, promote increased savings, and encourage participants to think of their 401(k) balance as a vehicle for lifetime income.

It merely provides participants with additional information so they can make informed choices about retirement.

I thank Chairman Harkin for calling this hearing and I welcome the witnesses.

I commend the Senator from Oregon and thank him for his help on this important issue for people all over the United States, not just in Oregon and Georgia but around the country. This is a great effort, and I commend him on it.

The unintended consequence of the Dodd-Frank legislation with regard to IOLTA is it not being extended and we are going to literally have thousands of escrow accounts held by law firms and attorneys, real estate transactions, dispute…

I rise today, on one of the final days in this Congress, to raise the importance of this issue because of the current fragile condition of the U.S. housing economy and, most importantly, to underscore what a handful of Senators in this…

I ran a campaign on the basis that we do not have a tax problem; we have a spending problem. I ran a campaign based on the American people wanting us in Washington to do what they have had to do in the last 3 years: sit down at the kitchen…

I think we ought to look seriously at working with you to come up with a board structure that makes sense in the challenging times ahead;

I appreciate Senator Harkin bringing that up.

I appreciate Secretary Solis and Mr. Geithner and the others who are on your board;

I'll pledge to you to work in a bipartisan way, because it does have to--those acts were both bipartisan;

I would encourage you, if they want to do it, to see if Fort Gordon and the Charlie Norwood VA in Augusta, GA, are not a part of that.

The thing that worries me about that is the effectiveness of a teleconference versus a personal contact one-on-one.

That just appears to me on the surface to say that we do not have a very good early evaluation system before they get to the determination system.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing.

I think circuit riders are an excellent solution to what otherwise could be a problem of a more impersonal evaluation.

The 9/11 Commission, in 2007, asked TSA to develop a CrewPASS program.

Technology is not a solution, however, to one issue, and that is good communication with the public.

Technology can be a solution to the privacy issue.

Well, what's taken so long to implement that at the airports around the country?

The traveling public is significantly upset.

I would welcome that.

That's a good decision.