CFTC oversight, as you have indicated, is a critically important function of this committee.
It is time to get back, as you have indicated, to the core fundamentals over at CFTC.
Unfortunately, in response to the financial crisis, the CFTC, in my view, has been off on a series of tangents.
Unfortunately, the manner in which Mr. Gensler chose to step aside or recuse himself has raised more questions than it has answered.
We must find out what happened with MF Global and we must do so in a manner that restores faith in the futures markets.
Thousands of our constituents are looking at the possible loss of hundreds of millions of dollars and it has nothing to do with Dodd-Frank.
That just raises it up as a bigger distraction.
We need to get to the bottom of exactly what happened with MF Global.
So all the country elevators out in Kansas can now not worry about putting up on their silos that they are a hedge fund, or that they contin...
Well, it is now.
I have long been, as I think everybody on the committee has been, an advocate for honest evaluation of the costs and benefits of our governm...