It is clear that a robust, well-functioning financial sector can help grow the economy.

To me, that means one of the best things we can do to promote economic growth in this country is to make every effort to provide basic banking services to the 40 million unbanked households in this country.

After a certain point, financial sector growth sucks money away from the real economy.

There is no tradeoff here between regulation and growth. They work hand in hand if done right.

last week Republicans in Congress came within an inch of ripping health insurance away from 24 million people in order to give tax breaks to rich people. That collapsed, and it collapsed because the American people stood up and said no--no…

A lot of Americans have known for a long time that the financial sector has gotten too big, too complex, and too powerful.

Our job here on this Committee is to advance policies to make the economy grow, not policies just to make big banks even bigger.

And the Democrats wanted more enforcement.

A big part of the job of the Chairman of the SEC is enforcement, a cop on the beat on Wall Street.

holding Wall Street firms accountable is a major job of the SEC's mission

Your recusal problems seem to be even more severe than Chair White's.

More potential cases with a deadlock and no enforcement, and that is a problem.