So I am hoping in this hearing to give you an opportunity to provide us with some greater clarity than you have thus far offered in our meetings and our correspondence.
Does it really identify the law breaking that went on and appropriately hold these banks accountable?
Over the last few months, Congressman Elijah Cummings and I have requested documents from your agencies regarding the basic data and the pro...
I think you have probably all seen this one-page agreement that lists all of the things that the banks did wrong
the public over and over seems to think that this institution and the regulators and the Senate and the House are more interested in protect...
So unless someone throws a rock through the window with this information tied to it, you will not release it, is that what you are saying?
the people who broke the law are the same people now who have determined who will be compensated from that law breaking.
What I am asking for is a bank-by-bank analysis of how many families they illegally foreclosed on.
I think I will stop there, Mr. Chairman, since it is clear that we do not have the information we need to determine the numbers on which the...
Without transparency, we cannot have any confidence, either in your oversight or that the markets are functioning properly.
The number has to be based on at least some understanding of how often the banks engaged in illegal activity and how many homeowners got hur...