Michael S. Barr: “I think that if we had--if the Federal Government at the time had not taken significant measures, both through the…”

I want to know what the bank executives were doing in the months, weeks, and days leading up to this failure.

SVB failed because of a textbook case of mismanagement by the bank and that Federal Reserve supervisors failed to take forceful enough action.

I think congressional oversight is absolutely essential, but I would not pursue the particular legislation that you have described.

I believe that it should be the sense of Congress that the policy of the United States is to prevent from Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon by all means necessary.