Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this is a critical moment. The Senate is on the verge of adopting legislation that could cost the American people dearly in the future. The House bill with respect to capital formation, which is labeled a jobs bill, but goes more to fundamentally changing security laws, is, in effect, another regulatory race to the bottom. There has not been a normal committee process in terms of weighing this legislation. This is a complicated bill involving the interaction of many different securities laws, interactions which have not been sorted out or analyzed. As a result, we are rushing to justice--or rushing to conclusions. Hasty deregulation has repeatedly been the source of financial crises--including the savings and loans crisis, the Enron-era crisis, the great recession of 2008, and the list goes on. Those who are impacted by those crises--those who lost their savings or dealt with cleaning them up, experts in this field, and many more--have come out in strong opposition to the House proposal: from the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Schapiro, the North American Securities Administrators Association, the State officials charged with enforcing securities laws, auditors, financial analysts, pension fund managers, and organizations like AARP, all who have spoken out against this legislation and supported my efforts to protect investors. This capital formation bill is fundamentally flawed, and it should not become law in its present form.…”