In 2010, U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe and U.S. Representative Barney Frank requested that NOAA fund a study.

In 2010, Senator Olympia Snowe and Representative Barney Frank requested NOAA fund a study by the National Academy of Sciences.

it was a great mistake to push lower-income people into housing they couldn't afford and couldn't really handle once they had it.

During the Full Committee markup, Democrats worked with the Majority to amend H.R. 1838 to continue the prohibition of complex swaps employed by AIG with devastating effect.

In 2009, Barack Obama was President. In 2008, when AIG was bailed out...

Many of us on the Democratic side were more supportive of the crisis efforts of President Bush...

The problem with partisanship is not that it exists because there are legitimate differences that should be debated.

I believe it is important that it get done this year. I believe it will be.

I think the amount of time we are talking about is not too long, given the importance of this and of doing it right.

I do want to say, in defense of the regulators, that they are, to some extent, damned if they do and damned if they don't.

The Volcker Rule, and it does it, I believe, in a thoughtful way.