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Robert Menendez

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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.

Dec 8, 2011

Thank you very much. Let me first thank Chairman Johnson for his leadership in this regard and in so many other major issues before the Banking Committee. He has really exercised a lot of our oversight obligations in making sure we…

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Dec 5, 2011

it is both unprecedented and rather extreme for Republicans to refuse to confirm anyone, regardless of how qualified they are

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Dec 5, 2011

the absence of all that disclosure was an important element of what caused the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009

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Dec 5, 2011

I just find this movement toward this 20 percent to me to be arbitrary.

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Dec 5, 2011

Isn't it a fact that it was the failure to regulate big Wall Street banks and the derivatives market that caused the losses of millions of American jobs over the last several years?

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Dec 5, 2011

I was proud to support the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

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Dec 5, 2011

But can you name a single action in all of American history that caused a greater loss of American jobs or slowing the growth that we have had in this economy than when we allowed Wall Street financial institutions to largely do whatever…

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Dec 5, 2011

It is time to allow for an up-or-down vote on Richard Cordray.

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Dec 5, 2011

I am very concerned that if the qualified residential mortgage definition being worked out... is not broad enough, it could hurt the housing market.

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