I think everybody on this committee is painfully aware of this problem.
I really, frankly, cannot think of too many higher priorities for this committee in the near term.
The administration has consistently urged Congress to pass legislation that would give Medicare the same authority that Medicaid already has...
The rapid rate of consolidation away from community banks that has occurred since Dodd-Frank's passage is striking given that this regulator...
The fact that America no longer launches new community banks is devastating for Americans across the country.
Even though some of them have some of the healthiest balance sheets, business models, and relationships in the entire financial sector, the ...
Congress and the President attempted to deal with threats to our financial system, threats that were posed by a handful of the largest insti...
Unfortunately, new regulations are straining the business of continuing to bank rural customers.
And we hope for a booming economy so they grow into that threshold.
I helped to start a small bank in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania and the western part of New Jersey with the goal of lending to small bus...
Our average historical growth over these same time periods we are talking about is a little over 3 percent, 3.1.