Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come to the floor with a happy birthday message today. I come with wishes for a happy birthday for the fifth birthday of the Dodd-Frank regulations. Where are we as a nation with this wonderful 5-year-old running around our Nation right now, pushing out birthday cake across every bank and financial institution across the country? Exactly how is that going? Let me share a couple of things. Everyone in this Nation remembers extremely well 2008 and the financial collapse that happened. We remember Lehman Brothers closing down and causing panic. We remember Fannie and Freddie rules finally reaping the consequences of what the Nation assumed would happen at some point from all of these very low rates and from encouraging people to buy who can't afford to pay back a loan. We knew what would occur. The rise of a conversation, something called too big to fail that we had never heard before, suddenly grows up, and we move as a nation in 2009 from trying to regulate financial institutions to actually running financial institutions. The regulations were considered too small, and for institutions that were big, it was determined that Big Business means Big Government needs to run it. I would have to say there is not a lot about the efficiency of Washington, DC, that we would look across the fruited plain and say this is working so well in Washington, DC, we should run every big company as well.…”