"The ongoing conflict in Syria confronts us with terrible challenges."
"The more Syria unravels, the more the state comes apart."
"The impact of not having a consistent rule is going to be devastating on the financial industry."
"the public cannot easily monitor FSOC's progress toward fulfilling its statutory purpose because it does not maintain sufficiently detailed records of its meetings."
"Do you think that insurance companies at all are considered systemically important financial institutions?"
"I firmly agree that banks should not be involved in proprietary trading when they are using insured deposits."
"And being from Florida, where sunshine is very important, sunshine and the--arena has to do with transparency."
"But you agree that the GAO report indicated that they have insufficient staff support? Is that true?"
"I understand that just the other day, Mary Miller indicated that she thought it would be best if there was a joint rule delivered."
"One solution I have advocated for would be, over time gradually increasing the retirement age for both Social Security and Medicare to 72."
"Removing the baseline from agency and department budgets and implementing zero-based budgeting instead would get rid of the automatic spending increases."