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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 object, Mr. President. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from Maine. Unanimous Consent Request--H.R. 1625

reserving the right to object, first, I thank Senator Durbin for 17 years of work on this issue and for highlighting the reality that there are so many people who came here through the decisions of their parents--not decisions of their…

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.

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 had not planned on talking about the bill we have before us, S. 2155, but the other day I was listening to another Member speak, and this Member was talking about how this bill could threaten and possibly increase the predatory practices…

The hearing will come to order.

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.

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.