Thom Tillis

Because of regulatory overreach consumers are not getting the loans they need, including the kinds of loans his family relied upon to live in a mobile home back in the 1970s and 1980s.

So thank you for being in charge of an agency in the administrative branch and try to tell us to make you more accountable. I appreciate your service.

If I could come out with this enormous, this horrible story about how you have destroyed a business or somebody else's personal life back in my State, you would just tell me to pound sand if that is something you wanted to do, right?

Yes, so it makes me wonder whether or not some people are just laying the predicate to nationalize our financial--our banking institution here, and they are willing to have some of these victims just lie along the path to their end goal.

One of the real victims that we do not talk about with all this regulatory overreach are the people who are not getting loans, who are not getting capital.

I do not necessarily think that the Federal Government needs to weigh into it.

I should mention that every one of those meetings that Senator Tester and I have had over the past few years also included Mr. Wilkie.

You are going to do a great job as Secretary. I leaned over to Mike Rounds. I said I have got to make sure I let him know to enjoy the honeymoon because the floggings will begin soon.

I specifically want to thank Ranking Member Tester for always being there at every single meeting over the course of that process with two Secretaries.

We need more resources to do that. That is why I will be supporting your nomination.

I do not promise all of our meetings will be amicable, but I will always be respectful.

Most importantly, I want expedited resolution for the veterans who I think rightly deserve care.

The only reason the omnibus language is in there is--I have been a Senator for 3 years. I have been working on it for 3 years, and I want to get it done.

It seems like we are talking half steps to really get to a point to where the presumption favors the veteran.

I think the baseline bill is very important.

I believe that a lot of what gets you to the fifth star is all the hard work that is done by the men and women in the facility.

I am proud to introduce my friend and colleague, Robert Wilkie, as the nominee for Secretary of the VA.

I think you should probably be equally mad when a former campaign director of the Obama campaign proudly tweeted, 'Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph.'

I think we need to fully examine what Cambridge Analytica did.

I think it is very important for you to hold the line on identifying as many people that you can lift up and out of any reliance.

I do not think that most people recognize that the regulatory burden that we place on the citizens of the United States hit the poorest among us the hardest.

We are going to do everything we can to make sure that your stories are becoming fewer and fewer until we can get them to be none.

This hearing is not a once-and-done moment. It is a process.

I think what you are doing there could serve as a basis for something that we should identify a way to pilot.

I immediately want to how you pay for it and also how you measure the benefits.