"the idea of transparency is very important, trading on exchanges, but is there any potential differentiation between the sophisticated bankers and regular businesses and farmers?"
"The end-user situation, in other words, you believe does make this differentiation so that this is not quite so onerous to other people."
"Are you going to be able to identify, as we have future hearings, which I am certain we will, be able to quantify those costs or offer us some metrics so we understand this is reasonable, excessive, o..."
"Does this create such a burden that U.S. firms are likely to be competitively affected?"
"a concern regarding extraterritorial application of rules relating to the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act"
"we walked away from Afghanistan in 1989 with disastrous consequences and we cannot afford to do so again"
"This opportunity should be used to do more than just withdraw an arbitrary number of troops based on political expediency."
"The administration's ambiguity on our goals must be eliminated in order to more effectively address our national security interests."
"this committee has discussed, as you have in your opening statement, the possibility of passing to the Afghans control over military and police functions"
"This is not an American problem only or an American obligation."
"The question the President must answer is whether we can achieve the most important national security goals in Afghanistan--especially preventing the Taliban from taking over the government and preven..."