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Pat Toomey

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Patrick Toomey is a former United States Senator from Pennsylvania, serving from 2011 to 2022. A member of the Republican Party, Toomey was known for his focus on fiscal conservatism, economic growth, and limited government. During his tenure, he served on several Senate committees, including the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, where he was involved in financial regulation and economic policy discussions.

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Apr 9, 2014

I cannot think of a more worthy cause than finding the cause and cure for Alzheimer's.

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Apr 9, 2014

But the account is a general program management account that has revenues that come from other sources, and there are expenditures that can go to other directions.

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Mar 25, 2014

I find this discussion always is a very interesting one to me.

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Mar 25, 2014

I do not see the cause to restrict them from access to the payment systems to conduct their business.

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Mar 25, 2014

So you are rejecting applications from 80 to 85 percent of the applicants because they do not meet your credit standards?

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Mar 25, 2014

There is a breathtaking underlying arrogance in the presumption by wealthy people who have never been in these circumstances that they know better than those people who make these foolish decisions.

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Mar 25, 2014

Is there any chance that some people who currently need and get access to credit will no longer have that access to credit?

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Mar 25, 2014

So, you are not able to set any old rate you like, because if you do, someone else who competes with you will set, presumably, a lower rate and competition imposes a discipline in this space.

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Mar 25, 2014

The kind of underwriting you do would not have been possible, certainly, 10 years ago, probably not even 5 years ago.

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Mar 25, 2014

There are lots of ideas that we hear, and the one idea that very seldom gets discussed is what about personal freedom?

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Mar 11, 2014

Thank you, and good morning, Chairman Klobuchar, Senator Grassley, Senator Durbin.

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Mar 11, 2014

It's wrong to use Federal disaster money in a way that severs people from their communities.

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