Steve Pearce

Forget the internal stresses of corporations. Think about the fact that the ground we are standing on literally is going to get insolvent and very quickly.

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…

I do think states should have greater control over these resources, because we are in the best position to manage and understand their impacts.

Yet no one has been held accountable to date.

If the funds were unlimited, what would the course of action be to remedy the problem?

I think I share the President's concern, and also your concern for the residents of New Mexico.

We are choked under the regulatory burden, and we are going to quit lending to poor people.

The small communities, the poor people, the people who are at the bottom end of the economic spectrum will have no other choices.

What business is it of the government if I want to borrow $100 to get me through to the next payday?

If it goes bad, you the taxpayer are paying for their mortgage and yours.

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.

So many people did not want their names used as I talked about their items. Are you all addressing the fact that we can't cure the problems when people can't talk about it inside the system?

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.

Many of my vets go to the hospital and find out they're going to have to pay for it.

The VA has a lot of people who care deeply about the veterans. And they serve well and they do their job well. But the abuses and the problems have dominated.

But what we did do was give the Secretary the ability to fire individuals who aren't doing their job or who find that they forced other people to manipulate the numbers.

One thing is you cannot legislate morality, you cannot legislate common sense, you cannot legislate people doing the right thing.

I've got a young soldier here that came today. He just got notified by text message that they were going to cut that department out or they were going to cut funding to it.

The arrogance and bullying by Federal agencies must stop.

This is not some theoretical argument. It is about our culture in the West and our livelihood.

The arrogance and the bullying by Federal agencies must stop.

Balance is no longer the order of the day, but instead, agencies look to implement a narrow special interest-led agenda.

I appreciate your holding this hearing today on Federal agencies which intimidate and bully private citizens.

It is time to exercise that power, and rein them in.

I will fight tooth and nail to make sure you get what you need, because border security is very important to me.