Chris Van Hollen

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 2:05 a.m., adjourned until Friday, March 5, 2021, at 9 a.m.

You can’t measure bipartisanship by the fact that you don’t have Republican senators that voting for it at this point when they want to be obstructionist rather than listen to their own constituents back home.

That’s not going to happen again.

We want to be able to do it. And this bill will help with that.

This is essential to the continued production and distribution of the vaccines.

We need to eliminate it or radically reform it, or at the very least for now, put the burden on the obstructionists rather than on those who want to move the process forward.

We will prevail. It’s just a matter of eating up the clock. But it is an example of Republicans, you know, kicking around in the sandbox.

This is just stomping his foot. This is taking advantage of a rule that is available. It’s not used very much. But it’s an example of the lengths to which, you know, people like Ron Johnson will go simply to throw a throw this big hissy…

If we don’t do something big like this, we’re going to live with these higher levels of unemployment into the year 2025.

Your years of hard work trying to balance the budget and your example of bipartisanship have not been forgotten.

I appreciate the opportunity to introduce to you the President's nominee to be Deputy Secretary of Energy, Mr. David Turk.

I strongly urge you to support the nomination of David Turk.

Curbing the practice of stock buybacks could, you know, force these companies to invest more in their workers.

You should not have to pay for the benefit of getting your paycheck in real time, and it just drives millions of Americans already close to the edge over the edge.

The way to go here is not through, in my view, a private sector structure but through the Federal Reserve and the FedNow system.

It is outrageous that millions of Americans, lower-income Americans, are losing billions of dollars in the form of late fees.

We saw after the big tax giveaway to corporations that Trump enacted back in 2017 that so many corporations used those funds for stock buybacks instead of, you know, putting them into higher wages for employees or investing in more capital.

I appreciate that, Dr. Hamilton.

I intend to work with you to close those loopholes.

I raised some concerns and some specific legislation I have introduced that I consider sort of SEC good housekeeping principles.

If confirmed, I would work with CFPB employees and their union to examine these issues.

Gary Gensler is known as one of the quiet heroes of the response to the Great Recession.

Isn't reputational risk something that a reasonable investor might consider?

I am thrilled to join my partner and senior Senator from Maryland, Ben Cardin in recommending strongly to the Committee Gary Gensler to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission.

I strongly recommend this nomination to the Senate.