The Shareholder Bill of Rights will go a long way to making sure that these failures do not happen again.

The council believes that the U.S. Congress must legislate this important and most basic shareowner right.

Can you give me one good reason that a director who gets only one vote at an annual meeting should be allowed to continue as a director?

And, sixth, and finally, requires public companies to create a separate risk committee containing all independent directors to assess the risks that the company is undertaking.

I share my colleagues' concerns about giving the Fed additional authority to regulate systemic risk.

Taxpayers had no choice but to step in--and that is my strong view--assuming billions of risk and saved companies because our system was not set up to withstand their failure.

First and foremost, we need someone looking at the whole economy for the next big problem with the authority to do something about it.

Wall Street's failures have hit Main Street, as we all know, across our Nation, and it will take years, perhaps decades, to undo the damage that a stronger regulatory system I think could have prevented.

It is clear to me that Congress must do more to help struggling American homeowners.

Can I ask a question? What percentage of the American people have a passport with a picture? I think it's only like 10 percent.

Employment verification systems that require employers to make subjective determinations about an employee's identity or legal status are bound to fail.