Carolyn Maloney

I have long championed policies to support working families, such as the Family and Medical Leave Act.

I cannot stress enough how heavily policymakers on this committee and at all levels of government rely on the data produced by the Census Bureau.

I truly believe that our government was at its best following the 9/11 crisis, when we came together and created a bipartisan professional commission to study exactly what went wrong.

I for one would like to see the report coming back from the bipartisan commission on what really caused this crisis, and their ideas of what we need to do to reform our system.

I strongly believe that an institutional reform could help to establish the scientific integrity and independence of census-taking.

I think that is a very wise focus that you put forward.

I also share your concern of the independence of the Census Bureau and welcome my colleague to look at legislation I have introduced that would create an independent Census Bureau totally separate from any political influence.

We then proceeded to react to their recommendations, and this Congress passed 47 of their recommendations.

As we debate health care reform, Census data tells us that 46 million Americans are without health insurance.

But statistical agencies like the Census Bureau should be absent political pressures so that the data remains unbiased and objective.

Helping the economy is a bipartisan effort.

if you take taxpayer money, you are subject to a higher form of oversight and accountability.

FISCA supports the introduction of a legislative solution designed to relieve banks of excess regulatory burdens in serving our industry.

I would like to ask Mr. McClain and Mr. Thompson to respond to a bill that I have put forward called the Money Services Business Act.

I think it is all very important. We really need to help the unbanked in many ways.

The Chair yields to the gentleman as much time as he may consume.

We applaud the subcommittee's goal in ensuring that remittances remain accessible and affordable.

I would be willing to work with you on this idea of a Federal regulator down the street at another time.

It's regrettable that a -- a dangerous and totally unrelated provision was added to a very important consumer protection bill. And you should not pass a consumer bill in -- in the barrel of a gun. It is really wrong, but that's the way the…

It's regrettable that a dangerous and totally unrelated provision was added to a very important consumer protection bill, and you should not pass a consumer bill in the barrel of a gun. It is really wrong but that's the way the system was.

Is that true or not, that the life insurance portion did not receive, nor did it need bailout, that it was properly managed?

What proportion of the AIG counterparties would have faced bankruptcy, without Federal bailout of AIG?

Do you share that belief?

Why did AIG meet the criteria of systemic risk while Lehman Brothers did not?

The recession that began in December 2007 has still not run its course.