Thank you. Chairman Isakson and Ranking Member Blumenthal thanks for this hearing very much and for, more than any Committee I have ever served on in the Senate--six or seven--although when I was on the Ethics Committee and Senator Isakson…

China has not transitioned to a market economy; it has not lived up to the commitments it made when it joined the World Trade Organization.

These loans are not just a risk for the Chinese government. They present a risk to global financial stability as well.

China's economic growth is slowing. As a result, China continues to make decisions to boost its economy, even when those decisions are not good for long-term stability and even when they violate international trade rules.

We need to watch for an uptick in acquisitions of U.S. firms by Chinese state-owned enterprises that could pose national security concerns for our country.

China should also reduce state ownership and state control in its economy.

I know everyone is squeezed for time, but I thank Senator Manchin for his leadership, the Presiding Officer, the other Senator from West Virginia, Mrs. Capito, and Senator Portman, my friend from Cincinnati. We all know how serious this…

today, the Supreme Court, despite lacking an important ninth Justice--my Republican colleagues refuse to do their jobs. That is the first time that anybody can remember, maybe in history--certainly in recent history--where a Supreme Court…

I appreciate the always good insight from the senior Senator from Oregon, my colleague on the Finance Committee. I say thank you to Senator Wyden. ____________________

I ask unanimous consent that Natalie Kirilichin and Elizabeth Wagner, fellows with the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee be granted floor privileges through the end of next month, July 2016. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

nothing is more fundamental for a democracy than the right to vote. Last year, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most important pieces of legislation we passed in the 20th century. It opened the door…

I withdraw my suggestion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan, and also an Eagle Scout.

I would be remiss if I didn't first say that I am pleased to see in the Presiding Officer's chair a fellow Eagle Scout from Wyoming who is as good to the Scouts as a middle-aged man--close enough--as the Scouts were to him as a young man…

I ask unanimous consent to proceed as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Veterans First Act

We should be listening to people who really paid the worse kind of price for what happened less than a decade ago.

In addition to instituting much needed reforms to bank capital, to liquidity, to risk management, and other standards, Wall Street reform tailored its approach to the regulation of community banks.

Enhanced supervision of these systemically important financial institutions together with the significant capital surcharge will provide more stability to our financial system and discourage SIFIs from becoming even larger and more…

Congress put in place a framework for capital and liquidity rules, including stress tests and living wills, to strengthen the U.S. banking system.

I want to thank my colleagues from the Veterans Affairs' Committee for their work on the Veterans First Act. I just left the committee, where Senator Isakson and Senator Blumenthal are in their typical bipartisan way working together with…

I know I will be joined in a few moments by my colleague from Ohio, Senator Portman. I rise to make some remarks on a resolution Senator Portman has submitted with me. Mr. President, journalists and sports fans like to describe victories…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection…

They would like to repeal Dodd-Frank and return our country to the casino capitalism that caused so much ruin for families and communities across our country.

The presumptive nominee of the Republican Party is a factory of bad ideas.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are failing to invest in infrastructure, in public works, in research and development, in education, in training--the very building blocks of our economic success.

I would like to see and I think many of us on this panel would like to see a more diverse Federal Reserve System.