"I do not see anyone--from the bank executives to the regulators to the Biden administration--taking meaningful accountability for their actions that played a role in the recent bank failures."
"This was a failure in three parts, and we must discuss accountability across the board--for bank executives, bank regulators, and this Administration's inflationary spending policies."
"An Administration prints and spends trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars, that would be embarrassing to any drunken person with somebody else's credit card."
"There is no doubt that the failure that we are looking at for the bank execs is inexcusable."
"We have had an issue of moral hazard."
"If the Government is always there to intervene and bail out a failing bank, this could promote riskier decisions in the financial sector."
"Two tools that work in your toolbox that you do not use does not mean you need a third one."
"I don't see anyone--from the bank executives, to the regulators, to the Biden administration--taking meaningful accountability for their actions."
"We should, 100 percent, discuss certain authorities regulators have to claw back executives' compensation if that individual acted in malpractice."
"My state had not balanced its budget in 20 years before I became Governor, and I walked into a 4 million dollar budget deficit."
"I understand the real loss and impact that flooding has on our communities, because I have lived through them."
"There are places in the country that are flooding that it was not historically a problem."