Critically I made sure that the United States reserve the right to maintain and enforce existing sanctions and even to deploy new sanctions to address those continuing concerns which we fully intend to do when circumstances warrant.
Barney Frank
The Public Record
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may not exercise any rulemaking, supervisory, enforcement, or any other authority including any authority to order assessments over a motor vehicle dealer that is predominantly engaged in the sale…
I do think there is a tendency for an overreach by the FSOC. I do not think straightforward insurance companies or money managers should be covered and regulated as SIFIs.
Dodd-Frank doesn't do enough to address this kind of invidious discrimination.
I am tired of the Republicans' death-by-1,000-cuts strategy to roll back the significant gains we have made since Dodd-Frank enactment.
I think that on the heels of what we have just seen in South Carolina, where we are eliminating symbolism, it seems to me that we have an opportunity to actually get into the invidious discrimination that still takes place.
I actually opposed the bailout, the $700 billion in bailout we gave to the banks.
We are talking about dismantling the one and only consumer protection agency that we created.
I know people in my district who have gone to jail for writing bad checks for $1,000 and yet these people are still walking around.





