Senator Casey and I reintroduced the Nursing Home Reform Modernization Act (S. 782) on March 16, 2021.
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.
There’s reparations for minority farmers that don’t have to demonstrate any financial stress or any adverse effect from COVID, but they’ll get 120 percent of whatever indebtedness they have just paid for by the taxpayer, but not if you’re…
This January's volatility in the stock market understandably captured everybody's attention.
What I think the SEC should do is put out for public comment a rule proposal proposing to move to a shorter trade settlement cycle and put it out for public comment and evaluate the costs and benefits.
the percentage of U.S. households that own stocks--directly or indirectly--increased from 32 percent in 1989 to 53 percent in 2019.
You cannot look at decades of growing worker productivity, with workers getting a smaller and smaller share of the profits they create, and then think the economy looks fair.
I do think, however, that the racial wealth gap is a problem, but I would rather put it as a problem of Americans.
The economy is not physics. It is not governed by scientific laws outside our control.
We have allowed a system to take root that treats American workers as a commodity, a cost to be minimized, instead of the engine behind all of our businesses' success.
I think we know that in many cases low-income families, including and especially in racial minority communities, often have very few choices about educational opportunities for their kids.
Capitalism produces the best conditions for the largest number of people by far, and the empirical case is very simple.
Even liberal Democratic economic advisors are warning--Larry Summers has famously said about this bill, that it brings on some big risks.
This is breathtaking for most Americans, that affluent families, with no interruption whatsoever in their income, having already gotten $5,800 from taxpayers, now they are going to get yet another $5,600.
I do have to express just how deeply disappointed I am that President Biden and our Democratic colleagues have decided to undertake a purely partisan process.
Isn't it actually quite likely that a number of States are simply, with all of this cash being thrown at them, they are going to cut taxes at the State level?
Every Republican on this Committee recently sent a letter to the SEC urging the SEC to disapprove of this proposed rule.
supporting gutting the CFPB like that by starving it of resources or creating structures that don't allow it to do its job, there is no real good argument for it other than representing those who are essentially breaking the law.
Yeah, this is about sticking with the rule that codifies the principle that guidance cannot act as a rule.
Boards really should be acting in the shareholders' best interests to nominate simply the best, most qualified people as directors.
But small businesses and workers do not need a $1.9 trillion bill that is wasteful, not at all targeted, and largely unrelated to COVID.
The Government can set any minimum wage it wants, but there is always a minimum wage of zero.
The Democratic plan is not an economic relief bill, as its size and its content bears no relation to the economic circumstances we are in.
It seems pretty clear that what this amounts to is the Government picking winners and losers.





