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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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Feb 8, 2012

I worry about how much more it is going to cost homeowners to be able to finance their mortgages in light of that.

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Feb 2, 2012

The economic policies of our President have failed.

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Dec 13, 2011

So we curtail the flexibility of these companies to expand in their marketplace or others.

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Dec 13, 2011

the cumulative effect of these is clearly progrowth and clearly encourages the growth of these companies.

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Dec 13, 2011

I think that is roughly the number of people in Congress, and Congress sometimes has a hard time getting coordination among itself.

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Dec 13, 2011

I would just suggest that Congress is dysfunctional for many reasons that might not relate directly to the numbers.

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Dec 13, 2011

I just want to make a couple of other points.

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Dec 13, 2011

these tend to be sophisticated people--

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Dec 13, 2011

At least in the case of 1933, certainly, it seems to me that one of the central provisions, one of the most important provisions in this bill, if not the most important provision, is the fact that it would allow these emerging growth…

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Dec 13, 2011

Thanks. I look at it as giving small companies the opportunity to grow into the ability to handle this cost.

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Dec 13, 2011

the current low shareholder threshold, could it have the unintended effect of driving companies a little bit on the margin, more toward debt instead of equity?

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Dec 5, 2011

Under Dodd-Frank, the Volcker rule becomes effective on July 21, 2012 regardless of whether a rule is finalized.

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