I think that the proposal from you and Senator Scott, which I have reviewed, does not go as far as I would like.

This is suspicious timing, but you did not look into this trade as part of your investigation.

Now I think it is long past time that Congress finally acts, and I have bipartisan legislation with Senator Scott to do that.

I urge CMS to finalize its proposed rule on ownership disclosure to ensure that consumers can make informed choices.

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.

Do you think that creates a conflict of interest?

I warned about in 2018 when I opposed Powell's nomination as Fed Chair and again in 2021 when I said that he was a dangerous man to keep at the Fed.

Now I think it is long past time that Congress finally acts, and I have bipartisan legislation with Senator Scott to do that.

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'm working on bipartisan legislation to claw back money when executives take big bonuses for blowing up their banks.

Did they violate the rules? Yes, they violate the rules.

I think that the proposal from you and Senator Scott, which I have reviewed, does not go as far as I would like.

I appreciate the work you are doing in trying to keep nursing home residents safe.

This is exactly the kind of deregulatory shift I warned about in 2018, when I opposed Powell's nomination as Fed Chair.

One of the four causes of SVB's failure, that the Fed report identifies, is the 2018 law that Republicans, with the help from some Democrats, passed.

So it sounds like to me that this is clearly a case of the fox guarding the henhouse all the way through the system here.

Then how could you say there was no evidence that anyone violated the rules? It clearly violated the rules.

Twenty years ago the GAO came to Congress, long before I was here, long before Senator Kennedy was here, and said, 'Change it because it is a mistake.'

It is past time for us to remove private bankers from this public role.

The allegations of improper trading and ethics violations are disturbing, and they are alarming.

What Congress did is say anything below $250 billion is wiped clean.

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.

you do not get to write a law that shoves the Fed in a strictly deregulatory direction and then turn around and say, 'Gee, we wish they had not deregulated.'

the Fed continues to stonewall Congress, stonewall the public, on the underlying information about these trades.

I am working on bipartisan legislation to claw back money when executives take big bonuses for blowing up their banks.