Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"This, to me it looks like we might wind up back in the 2008 situation if we had to restrict ourselves to the things that you're now planning to do and improve the supervision and the reliability of th..."

"But nothing is more important than putting people back to work and making sure that our economy is never again threatened by the risky bets of Wall Street gamblers."

"Letting Wall Street regulate itself helped trigger this crisis, sending millions of Americans to the unemployment line and causing their retirement accounts to shrink."

"Make no mistake: without these new reforms and the funding to carry them out, Wall Street will return to its reckless ways, which will threaten our economic recovery and undermine our ability to creat..."