"Okay, so it is really important that taxpayer funds be protected. I appreciate your work on that, but of course, the main thing, too, is we want to make sure that patients have a safe, healthy place to live."
"I appreciate the work you are doing in trying to keep nursing home residents safe."
"It is our duty to ensure that they are safe, but some of these facilities are in horrendous condition due to the greed of their corporate owners."
"I urge CMS to finalize its proposed rule on ownership disclosure to ensure that consumers can make informed choices."
"Now I think it is long past time that Congress finally acts, and I have bipartisan legislation with Senator Scott to do that."
"capitalism without competition isn't capitalism; it's exploitation"
"Welcome to the hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Policy."
"I have got an idea, a bipartisan idea that I am introducing with Senator Rick Scott today: get the big bankers off the Federal Reserve boards of directors."
"difficulty in attracting quality candidates for the position"
"This is the most severe ethics scandal in the Fed's 110-year history, yet other than a few officials taking an early retirement we have seen no accountability."
"What it does is create a system that was in place under Dodd-Frank, that for a bank to grow above $50 billion, or above $100 billion, they knew that there would be significant regulatory and superviso..."