If we are truly serious about ending poverty and uplifting all communities, we must reinvest in HUD.

We cannot allow poor people to go without advocacy in the Congress of the United States of America.

We will not acquiesce. We will not give our consent. We will fight.

Are we saying that America no longer wants to help the disabled, the elderly, and the children?

There is going to be a bill--this is Mr. Frank talking to the community bankers, according to the Washington Post--and either you are going to have to get on the bus or be run over by it.

Mr. Frank. Not just SIFIs; any institution of $50 billion or more.

How? I want to know how they think that is going to happen.

That makes no sense; for them not to be able to make that fact clear makes no sense to me.

I lived up exactly to that deal, as the gentleman on my right implicitly said.

With regard to asset managers, to clarify, I don't think as a general rule they should be. AIG could have, should have been.

We did have a fund, and there has been a fundamental difference between the two parties on whether or not we should assess large financial institutions.

The incentive became to make a quantity of loans and not quality.

My own view is that nothing could be more unlikely, given the current political mood.

I don't think that--if that is your major--if that is all you do is asset management or sell life insurance, I don't think you should be a SIFI.

If you have the courage of your convictions, let's bring it on.

I was astonished again--I get astonished a lot these days; I am out of the business.

If I had one magic wand I could wave, I would have merged the SEC and the CFTC.

I recognize they believe that we brought some stability--I don't think every piece of it, but that we brought some stability.

Dodd-Frank... provided oversight to Wall Street, gave regulators the tools to end the era of too-big-to-fail entities.

You always have to pick a number, and it will always be somewhat arbitrary.

No. I voted against the repeal of Glass-Steagall at the time because I thought it did not help benefit the new regulation.

Yes. I am proud of the fact that we insulated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from that strangulation by non-appropriation that has happened to the CFTC.

I am not asking you to come out and support this, but will you stay silent?

May I begin by responding to that outrageous suggestion that I broke my word?

I am again very surprised to hear my Republican friends now say our problem is that we have toughened up the standards for banks loaning to people.