Kit Bond: “There has got to be pre-purchase counseling before somebody buys a home.”

I regret to say that this bill should be called the Big Oil Gulf Monopoly Bill, because that is what it is.

I think one of the most critical values that will come of financial reform, if it gets passed, which I strongly encourage, is that without question, no one is carving out the products that you address.

But you are seeing only the younger ones with PTSD and TBI, the success rates, the bottom line that Mr. Norman referred to is not quite as good as the older, say, more mature veterans of your age and even as high as mine.

Opening Statement of Senator Christopher S. Bond