Bob Menendez

Well, with my thanks to Sara Marta Fonseca, Jorge Luis Perez ``Antunez'' and Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia for coming under very difficult circumstances and for once again exhibiting your courage and risking, I understand, the potential…

Did Laura Pollan, the founder of the Damas de Blanco, cross the redline, and did that result in her death?

So what happens when you--so those are the people who take the information of repression inside of Cuba and tell the rest of the world. What is crossing the line?

The chair is cognizant of members of the Castro regime who are here from the Cuban Interests Section, taking notes of everything that has been said.

I think we need to know who they are.

But you have created regulations that permit abuses to take place rather widely.

But everything that we can do would include sending the regime a message that you can't keep an American in prison and then have all your people parade over here. To me, that is an oxymoron.

I am outraged by the approval of visas for the daughter of Cuban dictator Raul Castro, Mariela Castro Espin.

Americans are free to disagree with the law, they are not free to disobey it.

I will never forget that meeting with Chairman Bernanke and Secretary Paulson.

I think every regulator here responsible for implementing the law should know if huge trading losses like this happened at banks after we established the Volcker Rule and capital rules have been written and implemented, then I think the…

I do not want to see a repeat of 2008.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Curry, I want to ask you about JPMorgan losing $2 billion...

So stopping homeowners from refinancing into lower-cost loans where they are less likely to default harms both homeowners and taxpayers and is obviously, in my mind, terrible policy.

As I have said many times, we need to fix the housing market in order to get the broader economy moving again and create jobs.

I do believe this is one of our challenges in moving forward, and that survey made it pretty clear that these are elements of a real challenge.

And I would assume that that sharing of information at the end of the day is critical, (1) for the patient, and (2) also for savings.

So, clearly, because a gift of God allows us access to the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and gulf territorial waters, it is in our security interests, our energy interests and private sector interests to ratify this treaty.

I hope, as one of those who supported the Wall Street reform legislation, that the agencies are going to look at this broadly...

So it is not the Senate Banking Committee that is conducting those.

Do you interpret--do you hope to interpret the Volcker Rule in a way that what took place at JPMorgan would not have been possible?

With reference to what happened at JPMorgan where the huge losses there take place, have you determine who was responsible at this point for that?

Are you working with entities that are conducting criminal investigations?

So you do not know at this point who is responsible for what took place at MF Global.

That is pretty outrageous, and it is unsustainable.