Steve Pearce: “Mr. Chairman, thank you, but it looks like we are going to protect consumers from everybody but the government.”

I suspect that's the reason that we've never moved any further towards letting veterans see local providers, because of that internal belief that the system doesn't need to change and will never need to change.

I find myself on the other side of the policy. And so it is trying to harmonize those two positions.

Thank you very much for making sure this pilot project is ongoing, because it is buzzing around the state. People have heard about it, there's a sense of excitement, there's a sense of relief.

one of the things that we have been wrestling with in our State is that the Dodd-Frank regulations were intended for the large institutions but they bleed down to the smaller ones because it's impossible in the mindset of regulators to…