Daniel Akaka: “Nationwide Indian reservations suffer from a violent crime rate of more than two-and-a-half times the national average.”

Thank you, Chairman Brown. Thank you very much for holding this hearing today and for all of your work on consumer protection issues.

I fought to include a report on remittance transfers in the Dodd-Frank provisions.

Financial literacy and consumer protection issues are very close to my heart.

We must also reaffirm and acknowledge the Department of Education's Federal trust responsibility for American Indian and Alaska Native students.