Are there any other tools other than interest rates that might work?

Warren Buffet. He said the government deserves a high grade for its efforts to prevent the collapse of the financial system and rescue the economy from imminent free fall.

Raising interest rates is one answer to deal with the bubble, but that is obviously tricky.

But for many years, many of us in the Senate were frustrated in our efforts to get the Fed to address predatory lending.

I believe the Fed should conduct a thorough review of ATM fees to ensure that consumers are protected from excessive ATM fees.

I can't think of a nation where the value of its currency was turned over to or even marginally or significantly influenced by elected officials that that nation has prospered.

That, to me, is a European model of governance that is very threatening because there, big is not necessarily bad.

Senator Charles Schumer has introduced S. 1744, which would require that all pilots have an ATP as a minimum condition for employment with commercial Part 121 carriers.

If the currency were allowed to float, wouldn't they grow at a much greater rate?

All these high-minded editorial boards who love to just say, 'We are so much smarter than politicians,' were wrong.

And, frankly, what came out of China on this issue was terribly disappointing.

Watch the world economy system tie itself into a pretzel because the most prosperous country of them all is saying, 'We want to be more prosperous at everybody's expense'?

President Obama, backed by conclusions of a broad range of economists, believes that China is manipulating its currency.

They still didn't let the currency freely float, but they were still manipulating it, but they let it rise.

I think that the legislation that Senator Graham and I posed played an effect.

I don't think any Americans who follow this are happy with the present pace.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

By the way, I was called a protectionist.

We cannot even imagine what you have been going through.

You will have my full and undivided help.

It seems to me that New York should not bear the burden alone.

We all deeply live with the losses that New York and the rest of the Nation suffered in 2001.

I was the primary author of the Federal death penalty provisions for terrorists in the 1994 omnibus crime bill.

I do not see any legal impediments to our seeking the death penalty.

I would just urge that you urge they write it into the budget that they are going to bring to us, the administration.