Chuck Schumer

I will continue to work with my colleagues to provide these resources and the oversight that is critical to the success of the Agency.

OK. Does anyone else have a comment on any of the things I mentioned?

Tricia is a dynamic and accomplished public servant, and I am delighted to support her nomination to be Solicitor of the U.S. Department of Labor.

Under either scenario, the Fed has given the green light to banks to take advantage of American families.

The Federal Reserve's failure to protect consumers from these outrageous rate increases is unconscionable.

I think you could figure out a better way than the one you have chosen.

I believe that the Federal Reserve's failure to protect consumers from these outrageous rate increases is unconscionable.

I have asked a few people, why would it take a year-and-a-half? And nobody can figure that out.

It is fair to ask why you won't use the same powers to aid American families who are at just as great a risk.

It is fair to ask why they won't use the same powers to aid American families who are at just as great a risk.

Excuse me, but the Congressional delays are not close to as long as yours.

Consumer protection, in my judgment, long before you were there, has been a weak point in the Federal Reserve.

We might be able to get something done that really stands by the basic view that Americans support, like legal immigration and do not like illegal immigration.

I am optimistic, using the formulations that we have talked about today, that we might--not for sure, and, boy, it is hard.

I think most Americans, at least the polling data I have seen and talking to people, their greatest fear is not this time's path to citizenship.

But my view is that at least that view is mooted, A, if the path to citizenship is a real path and has penalties and other types of things but is reasonable.

I think that it ultimately becomes the difficult--the most difficult continues to be a political issue, not a substantive policy issue.

I think the time is right. I do.

Most Americans are pro-immigration but anti-illegal immigration.

I think the American people would accept a fair, reasonable path to citizenship for the illegal immigrants who are here.

I could not think of four better witnesses to start off our long goal, quest, to come up with a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year.

If I had additional personnel, I have got robbery issues, I have got auto theft issues, I have got a lot of other crimes that I think threaten public safety a lot more than going after someone who may have overstayed a visa.

I do not know of a police department in this country that has the ability to take on these types of investigations, which are time-consuming, which are crimes that we have never had to investigate before, and just do it with no impact to…

I think the time is right. That is, frankly, why I chose to chair this Subcommittee.

I want to thank all four of our witnesses. I do not think we could have had four better witnesses to begin this, and from different perspectives each showed the need for immigration reform