"Yes, I understand. It just seems like there may be an acceptable bargain here that, yes, we will provide a tremendous amount of assistance for those who are willing to go back to Ukraine and rebuild t..."
"the ultimate solution to this is just to get rid of the debt limit. This is a ridiculous rule that we make up for ourselves."
"I have introduced, along with Senators Van Hollen and Schatz, the End the Threat of Default Act, which simply repeals the debt limit."
"I do believe that there should be a rough proportionality between the number of rulemakings and the number of good ideas."
"I remain proud of what we did almost 13 years ago with the Dodd-Frank Act."
"What we have learned is that we now have to reinforce our banking system against bank runs that can occur at the speed of the internet."
"This will require stronger emergency liquidity provisions to banks under attack, and it has to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
"Had we followed Congress' direction to include contingent capital in the stacks of U.S. large banks, we would have been able to resolve the SVB without hitting the Deposit Insurance Fund."
"we spent billions of dollars, and at one point in a committee hearing, I asked the question, well, didn't the Taliban kind of do this experiment?"
"we have spent billions of dollars, and at one point in a committee hearing, I asked the question, well, didn't the Taliban kind of do this experiment?"
"if we wish to prevent crypto assets from being used for ransomware, if we wish to prevent wash trades and other market manipulation, is there any alternative to having every crypto transaction ultimat..."
"Just for the record, no one volunteered such a magic technology."