"We have the kind of ridiculous situation in my district with Bath County, which is literally one of the most rural places in America, designated by your agency as non-rural."
"Wouldn't it be safer for the financial system to put the risk on shareholders than on taxpayers?"
"I agree with your testimony there and I appreciate the Bureau's recognition of this in the exemptions as to small creditors."
"The American people are tired of Washington living by one set of rules and the private sector and the American people living under another set of rules."
"I think your testimony earlier was that the taxpayer is paying for these lawyers that you are hiring to defend your managers. Is that right?"
"the prospect of powerful Federal agencies working with the Department of Justice to pressure banks to terminate relationships with legitimate businesses."
"we consider a very political attack, on a very legitimate business, the coal industry."
"We have lost 7,000 coal-mining jobs in Eastern Kentucky over the last several years because of this Administration's regulatory assault."
"Thank you for your commitment that you will not further the war on coal."
"We have lost over 7,000 coal jobs in eastern Kentucky over the last 2 years as a direct result of the regulatory assault of this Administration."
"if the Administration is concerned about the environmental impacts, then what you are doing by discriminating against coal-fired power projects is you are excluding U.S. technology from the opportunit..."