We had, you know, regular meetings with the OCC and the Fed.

That speaks of, did that money come out of the settlement?

What is ironic here is--maybe it is not ironic. What is illustrative, perhaps, is that the private sector trade association, the professional association AICPA, has very specific, strict standards on behavior and qualifications and all…

So we had an ongoing dialogue with the regulators throughout the process, as they acknowledged in the first panel.

What if they underestimated the value of an institution's money laundering transactions by $250 billion?

this amendment--the NNMI--offers one commonsense approach by partnering with private industry to bring together companies, small businesses, research institutions, and community colleges so we can outinnovate the rest of the world. I ask…

we ask support for the Vitter-Brown-Corker- Pryor amendment. The community banks of America support it because they know the playing field isn't level. One real quick statistic. Eighteen years ago, the six biggest U.S. banks had assets…

I rise and join with Senator Blunt in a bipartisan amendment, No. 455, in support of a national network for manufacturing innovation. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record letters from the National Association of…

What we want in return is maybe Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Are there particularly new negotiating objectives that the administration would seek so we do not repeat past fast track authorizations that failed to balance trade?

I don't yet want to call up my amendment--I have been working with Chairman Mikulski on this--until they get an agreement. However, I will discuss for a moment amendment No. 83, which I am cosponsoring with Senator Isakson of Georgia. It…

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 2 minutes. After my remarks, I ask that the senior Senator from Arizona be recognized.

I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment No. 83.

I would say to Chairwoman Mikulski that the amendment I would have offered along with Senator Isakson would strike the language on the pilot projects that expire at the end of the year with privatization of customs services. It is…

It is my understanding this has been sort of the hypocrisy we have woven through this debate over the last 3 years.

I appreciate the words of the Senator from Illinois. To close, Senator Durbin's comments accurately explain that there is a bias in this institution on tax policy and health policy for some Senators to take care of themselves and people…

I would like to see Senator Cruz or one of the supporters of the Cruz amendment offer an amendment.

We had this discussion back in 2009 and 2010 when we debated this health care law, that Members of the House and Senate continue to receive health insurance. I recall one House Member was unhappy during campaigning against the Affordable…

Apparently not good enough for a senior, not good enough for somebody who is low income but working two $10-an-hour jobs, I guess it is not good enough for them.

Almost 100,000 of Ohio's young adults are now able to stay on their parents' health plan. Seniors have saved almost $300 million in prescription drugs just since the passage of the health care law, with an average per beneficiary savings…

It is true. That is true. This is open to people regardless of how they vote on the Cruz amendment.

In my State and the Senator's State, since his State is slightly larger than mine--over 1 million seniors in each State and hundreds of thousands in the Presiding Officer's State of Wisconsin-- millions of seniors have received some kind…

It doesn't take away the insurance for those people voting on this amendment; that is correct.

These kids would be on their own, but the Senators who are pushing this amendment would still have their health insurance, just to reiterate that.

The Cruz amendment doesn't just anticipate changes in the future, it takes away all these services which have been out there that I have been talking about: the thousands of people in Illinois, Ohio, and Wisconsin who have benefited…