Mr. President, there are no easy answers to our current dilemma. The majority leader's proposal is the best option we have to overcome the bipartisan impasse. Failure to increase the debt limit is not an option. Working families cannot…

It should not be acceptable for the regulatory agencies. We are being told--we have been told by the regulatory agencies that that practice has ended, yet there are reports that it has not.

we are creating a crisis in terms of getting access to capital and moving this marketplace and creating an economy that can thrive again.

I am concerned that if the qualified residential mortgage definition being worked out by regulators is not broad enough, it could hurt a housing market that is already suffering enormously in terms of being part of our national economic…

Are you going to release those three entities that I have asked you?

If Dodd-Frank is about anything, at the end of the day, it is about taking and creating transparency and a new era of transparency and openness...

It is not acceptable--it is not acceptable--to violate the law. It is not acceptable to do robo-signings.

I hope you understand it is incredibly difficult to create public trust that the companies hired by the banks to perform the foreclosure reviews...

Will you release the mortgage servicers' action plans that respond to problems in the consent orders?

Mr. President, on July 20, 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus. Thirty-seven years later, Turkish troops continue to occupy 37 percent of the island. The invasion and occupation resulted in the deaths of more than 5,000 Cypriots and made some…

Mr. President, I came to the floor. I heard an interesting colloquy going on between my colleagues, my friend from Utah and my friend from Alabama, and I saw that my name was invoked, so I thought I would come to the floor and maybe…