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I think it is something that may help explain some of the cultural issues that seem to be coming up time and time again.
11/20/2014
I think the current law is not effective in accomplishing what it set out to accomplish.
11/20/2014
If we need the expertise that comes from having been in these sophisticated transactions in order to understand and regulate them, how do yo...
11/20/2014
I would rather see a class of professional regulators very well trained and very well incentivized to do that which is right rather than jus...
11/20/2014
It seems to me on that third point that the best--the very good examiners are going to need that.
11/20/2014
I think it takes Congress to do something like that.
11/20/2014
People really respond to incentives, and so one of the problems of Government service in an agency like the Federal Reserve is frequently th...
11/20/2014
Does this not indicate you are just asleep at the switch?
11/20/2014
That is just a fundamental fact of that case that you are presenting as too big to jail.
11/20/2014
Does this disturb you? Do you think there needs to be some change in these practices?
11/20/2014
I just think it--is it not ironic that it took a U.S. Senate investigation by Carl Levin to provide the facts that led to this particular ca...
11/20/2014
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Jeff Alan Merkley
in office

usa, Oregon

3,811 Quotes

Born10/24/1956 (age 68)

PartyDemocratic

  • United States Senator

    1/6/2009 - present
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