Senator Brown, in your opening remarks.

the process is stacked in favor of the banks, that the information is not forthcoming.

can you promise us that the Fed will be more forthcoming with this information in more detail?

The Chinese government must do more to abide by its WTO commitments, protect the rights of workers, and support a clean environment.

Today I am calling on China to fully comply with all of its World Trade Organization commitments and fully and faithfully implement all of the WTO rulings against it.

I am calling on China to fully comply with WTO commitments and fully and faithfully implement all of the WTO rulings against it.

President Johnson 50 years ago, as Senator Harkin was talking about, declared a war on poverty down the hall in the House of Representatives in his State of the Union Message. A little later he visited Athens, OH, in the heart of…

The way to get it is make them bear the cost of the errors.

I often said my vote in 2008 for the TARP, for the Trouble Asset Relief Program, was both the best vote of my career and the worst vote of my career.

the moral hazard that it engenders. Moral hazard is the cost we pay for living in a civilized society.

I think some of you saw an article recently, I think a front-page piece in the New York Times in the last couple of weeks, about the conflicts of interest so often from academicians who speak with authority.

the competitive situation gets worse.

the problem with the too-big-too-fail subsidy, it happened by happenstance. It was never voted on.

The way to get the change is not by doing it piecemeal on each part of their compensation, because they will find ways to circumvent it.

Governments bail out bigger banks.

Five years later, according to the firm SNL Financial, the four largest banks control more than 40 percent of the banking industry.

the too-big-to-fail subsidies, it is subsidizing that which we do not want. So we know it is perverse.

the too-big-to-fail subsidy, it is something we do not want. Yet, it is there.

Today they are more than 60--six-zero--percent of GDP.

for those who do not remember or those who do not choose to remember, 5 years ago our economy was at the brink of collapse after being rocked by a financial crisis because of incompetence, Wall Street greed, overreach in the financial…

I wish to praise the passage of the National Pediatric Research Network Act, signed into law by President Obama on November 27, 2013. I was proud to introduce this bipartisan legislation along with my colleague and friend Senator Wicker. I…

I am here to join my colleagues in asking for unanimous consent--which we will do formally later on--to pass the Tax Extenders Act of 2013. The bill will do a number of important extensions, including-- particularly important for my…

I thank the Presiding Officer and the Senator from New Jersey, and I ask unanimous consent that the Senator from Washington be allowed to speak following my comments on the extenders. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

I appreciated Senator Casey's comments, Mr. Romasco, about your personal story.

Excuse me for interrupting, but let me ask you another question about that, Mr. Biggs.