Even though some of them have some of the healthiest balance sheets, business models, and relationships in the entire financial sector, the fact is compliance costs, at least a portion of them, are often fixed costs.

The fact that America no longer launches new community banks is devastating for Americans across the country.

The rapid rate of consolidation away from community banks that has occurred since Dodd-Frank's passage is striking given that this regulatory overhaul was billed as an effort to end 'too-big-to-fail'.

And we hope for a booming economy so they grow into that threshold.

Our average historical growth over these same time periods we are talking about is a little over 3 percent, 3.1.

Even what might seem nominally to be a small difference in the rate of growth, I guess my point is over time doesn't that end up having a very big impact on the standard of living of ordinary Americans?

That means in 2023 we are going to have a $1.5 trillion smaller economy than we would have had based on your forecast.

More Pennsylvanians will die this year from overdoses and misuse of heroin and prescription painkillers than from influenza or homicide.

I've authored the bipartisan Stopping Medication Abuse and Protecting Seniors Act.

Stopping this epidemic and healing our communities will require a three-prong approach that I am pursuing as chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care.

Yes. Dr. Kabazie, this might be difficult to generalize, but I am wondering if you can give us any sense of how long a period of time it is safe for most people to be consuming a prescription opioid.

the legislation Senator Toomey is requesting on a lock-in for medication, and I would like to second that also.