Susan Collins

I am going to bring up one of those kinds of questions right now too.

We always have--we've brought more than 300 cases to shut down foreclosure rescue scams, fake job offers, and, as you mentioned, Senator Collins, phony access to Federal stimulus money.

Unfortunately, today we see that the incidence of fraud and predatory scams appears to be on the rise.

The FTC deals with issues that affect the economic life of all Americans.

At a time when healthcare costs are spiraling out of sight, and the cost of prescription drugs is a major part of that, the idea that consumers are paying $35 billion more, over the last--or over the next 10 years because of these…

There should be a committee of Congress watching this, following this, making certain that we are moving toward the same goal.

I also believe in effective congressional oversight.

I think so. I think so. Thank you.

That's just really troubling.

I think you have a good point about de minimis business, but you ought to complete the work on it...

I am going to offer an amendment to put the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman on that council.

I have had a great interest in seeing the Commission establish position limits to apply to the energy markets.

I was alarmed to learn that CBP had so little authority, prior to this law, to actually seize and destroy dangerous consumer products.

This is really critical to keeping dangerous products from ever coming into our country in the first place.

The success of that depends on close coordination with the Commission, and the Commission was charged with developing a comprehensive risk assessment.

I authored provisions of your new law that were intended to bring about better coordination and information sharing between the Commission and Customs and Border Protection.

While the Consumer Product Safety Commission is a relatively small agency, it has a critical mission of keeping the public safe from dangerous products.

That would be very helpful because, obviously, if there is an imbalance, that is a problem at this time of great budget strain.

Many Federal employees place their very lives at risk on a daily basis.

Without their dedication, this vital work could not be done.

I think that's very important for us to understand, that we're talking about two different pots of money here.

I am troubled, obviously, by the prospect of the Postal Service laying off 13,000 people in this terrible economy.

I was disappointed when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported, last August, that not as much progress been made in this area as I would have hoped.

The administration of this program has been far too lax, and it is not protecting retirees, participants, and future participants.

I would like to ask you to address that issue in a factual way, to help us better understand this charge.