"This made the discharge petition much more effective at its intended purpose, which is sort of to operate as a safety valve against, you know, the Speaker's rather dictatorial power."
"If you made it anonymous, you would allow Members to sort of probe support for centrist legislation."
"I have been amused for a long time at how can it be that there is legislation supported by 70 or 80 percent of the public, a clear majority of Members of Congress, and yet we are not allowed to even v..."
"I think we should consider adopting this in the coming session of Congress, at least on a temporary basis."
"While the Presidency is often the focus of political pronouncements about macroeconomic conditions, there is no question that it undersells the importance and the independence of the work of the Feder..."
"The good news is that macroeconomic policy is working as designed."
"I guess when things are going well, as they currently are, it is all of our duties to look around the curve and see the risks that keep you up at night."
"Frankly, when I read about this, it triggered my PTSD from the AIG situation with credit default swaps during the financial crisis."
"If you conclude, as you are actively studying it, that you need more visibility into certain areas of, particularly nonbank things that may be parts of the chain of contagion, please let us know, beca..."
"I think it is my personal goal to die before we have another financial crisis, and then I will be doing my job well."
"Do you remember with AIG, the real problem with AIG falling into bankruptcy is that it would immediately put a bazillion of the European banks into violation of their capital requirements, which was m..."
"Was there anything you wanted to add about the oil cap policy that you didn't have a chance to during the previous round of questioning?"