Bob Menendez Jr.

There will be an uneven and unbalanced playing field where community banks have to abide by the rules.

I and 10 of my colleagues, including several Members of this Committee, and a dozen House members, have written to the OCC, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC urging you that you make the foreclosure reviews and other foreclosure-related…

But for the Congress acting, we would have maybe not been in the deep recession we are in but on the verge of a near depression.

I find it hard to believe that companies that do all kinds of complicated calculations for everything else involving their revenues and expenses would find it difficult to take their 2,000 employees, figure out how much employee number…

Transit creates good-paying, long-term jobs directly and helps create countless more by efficiently connecting workers with their place of employment.

Congress must do everything it can to incentivize bringing innovation to scale, leaning heavily on new technology.

I hope some of you will look at the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act that we are offering.

What about the fact that credit unions by their nature are tax exempt and obviously do not live within all of the regulatory requirements?

I have spoken to many Madoff scam victims in New Jersey and they are generally dissatisfied with SIPC policies and reimbursement process.

There is something that is pretty outrageous going on at State that I have been pursuing for the 19 years that I have been in the Congress--House and Senate.

But we don't get to work directly with the Afghan people. We get to work with their elected representatives.

I think it should be very clear that there will be a very strong will in the Congress of the United States to not have U.S. taxpayer dollars go to such an entity.

I do accept the argument that these are not inherent criminals, these are not people who actually want to commit crime.

You would think that that militarized border would be able to see and act on gun trafficking.

I believe we can put $200 million of INCL money into a Central America security partnership initiative this year.

I think our challenge here, my personal view, is that our goal is to protect the taxpayers but still have the opportunity for a middle-class family to get a 30-year mortgage.

If confirmed, I would continue to make counternarcotics a high priority.

If confirmed, it would be an honor and a privilege to serve my country in this new capacity, and join my colleagues in working to extend U.S. leadership at and through the United Nations.

So would it be fair to say, then, that if you had to live with H.R. 1's budget, that, in fact, investors would be less protected, that there would be potentially less integrity in the market, because you would not be able to police it, and…

I would prefer, both for their interest and ours that they move more quickly, because it will result, here at home, in more jobs, and that's what this is all about.

The situation is unacceptable, not just to us, but to all in the region, in my view.

I do not quite see it the way you see it. I do not think many Members see it the way you see it in terms of what our goals are and what the accomplishments are.

I remember in my days in the House of Representatives... we created an infrastructure and the high-speed nonpolluting light rail line.

We needed to stimulate that economy because it just had no private sector activity, for all intents and purposes.

You talk about the challenges sometimes that lower-income people have between paying their utility bills and dealing with medical care or food.