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Robert Menendez is a prominent Democratic politician currently serving as a member of the United States Senate, representing New Jersey. He was first elected to the Senate in 2006 and has since been re-elected multiple times. Menendez has played a significant role in various policy areas, including foreign relations, immigration reform, and healthcare. He has served on several Senate committees, including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has been an advocate for human rights and democracy abroad.
Well, as someone who has been a strong advocate in a different context of being able to allow mortgage borrowers to refinance at historically lower levels, it seems to me that we should find the wherewithal to be able to achieve this, have…
I am pleased to join my colleagues in speaking about the DISCLOSE Act and why this is so critically important for our democracy. I appreciate the leadership of several of our colleagues in this respect. For the last 2 years our democracy…
it exposes to me a culture of greed, a culture of cheating, of lying, at least at one large bank, and probably many more.
this is a huge issue, and it again goes to the integrity of our financial system, and the lack of faith, I think, increasingly that the American public and, for that fact, many of us are having in the system.
if you got caught in that period of time in which the traders wanted the higher LIBOR and that was a time in which your adjustment was going on, you had a detriment to yourself.
Well, I would look forward to the Fed's leadership in this regard and suggestions of how we, in fact, make a system that cannot be manipulated, that has consequences to millions of consumers, investors, pension funds, municipalities…
it seems that this is an industry that on its own will not work with the integrity that the public deserves.
banks like Barclays were trying to profit from the LIBOR manipulation, but that profit came not at, you know--actually, it came at the expense of the public in general.
we are poised to pass a truly historic transportation bill and I wanted to engage in a brief colloquy with my colleague Chairman Johnson, with whom I have worked closely over the past year and a half to craft the transit title of the bill…
I thank the chairman. I look forward to continue working with you to oversee the implementation of this and other provisions in this bill and continue to do all we can do to support a robust, well-funded public transportation program.
Chairman Johnson, I completely agree. This language should not be interpreted to encourage or require public-private partnership activities in transit or give any preference to grantees based on the decisions they make on this issue. For…
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