Sherrod Brown

That is why it is critical we consider ways to update and strengthen our anti-money laundering regime, including requiring the kind of tough new beneficial ownership rules we should have imposed years ago.

With all the tough comprehensive protections we have in place over the years, especially since 9/11, huge amounts of laundered funds continue to course through our financial system.

Thank you, and we will count on you on both counts.

Would you answer this question, no matter what the President says to attack this report, no matter what the President says to undermine this report, you will stick to your belief that you have no reason to doubt this report?

I know you know the administration tried to bury the National Climate Assessment.

I wish you had said that more directly than the body of work.

I would like you to commit to this Committee to continue support and advocate for strong funding for 1890 Land Grants.

That is why immediately after the crash, we put in place rules to strengthen taxpayer protections from big bank risk and to protect consumers from predatory practices.

We know the Fed failed in its mission 10 years ago. The Fed had all the power it needed to prevent the crash.

The Fed's responsibility and Vice Chairman Quarles' job is, as we know, to ensure that the economy works for average Americans--that if you work hard, you can get ahead; that Wall Street does not again crash the financial system and…

Unfortunately, the last 10 years have shown that misconduct, fraudulent investment schemes, and cybersecurity threats aren't unique to the traditional financial system.

Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies like it, promised to make payments faster, easier and cheaper, and to eliminate our reliance on risky financial institutions whose failures harmed workers and families during the crisis.

Back then we were in the midst of a global financial crisis, and you can't blame some Americans for hoping that an alternative banking system could be created that would be superior to the one in shambles at that time.

Thank you, Chairman Crapo, for holding this hearing.

Ten years ago this week, taxpayers were forced to spend $700 billion to bail out Wall Street and save our economy from collapse.

If we do not fix it this year, it gets harder and harder and harder.

What really struck me at that hearing, what struck me all along, is the pleas of pensioners who are seeing, potentially, their pensions cut 40 to 50 percent or more.

Our laws absolutely should react to that abuse, and your legislation would surely help.

There is something wrong with this picture.

I am arguing, though, that the focus needs to be on the most responsible, committing the most egregious offenses.

I know that most of us around this diaz will not let this drop; we will keep the pressure on you.

To a lot of Blue Water Navy veterans, it sounds like the VA is standing in the way of our efforts to pass this legislation.

Veterans are dying, as Senator Heller said, while we--we are not fiddling while Rome burns.

I want to keep the pressure on the Blue Water Navy issue because I know that... veterans from Vietnam died while they were being litigated.

The ATM has been the only useful innovation in banking for the past 20 years.