With every mass shooting in this country, the American people call for action and the U.S. Congress does nothing.

Gun violence is tearing apart our families and our communities, and we cannot turn away from that.

The idea that Congress would witness children, bystanders, spouses, people watching movies, people going to church die by gun violence and refuse to take any action is irresponsible in the extreme and clearly a sellout to a powerful gun…

the deaths continue to add up with more than 30,000 people lost to gun violence during 2013 alone.

Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to thank Senator Merkley for organizing this event this afternoon and Senators Blumenthal and Markey for their work on this. Smoking produces corporate profits, period. There is the heart of the…

The estimate was that over a 3-year period it would save community banks about $4.5 billion.

Dodd-Frank changed the law on how FDIC calculated what banks owe in deposit insurance assessments.

Dodd-Frank included a tradeoff. It imposed new rules to protect consumers and our markets, necessary rules to stop the kind of behavior that led to the last crisis.

This Committee should legislate based on the facts, not on a make-believe narrative that is pushed by lobbyists.

I have joined with all of my Democratic colleagues on the Banking Committee to introduce a bill that would provide targeted relief to small lenders without rolling back the rules on big banks that pose a real threat to our financial system.

In the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress directed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to change how it calculates deposit insurance assessments.