Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I know we have two side-by-side amendments. I know the Senator from Delaware, Mr. Carper, has an amendment which, by the way, I hope everyone on my side of the aisle will support. It has to do with Federal preemption. I think it is a good amendment. I do not think it goes far enough. Let me speak to the differences. First of all, both the Carper amendment and the Corker amendment deal with the fact that if there is a Federal law relating to our banking system, that cannot be preempted, generally speaking, by State law. I think that is a good step in the right direction. Certainly, I commend Senator Carper for doing that. It is something that, by the way, our national banks obviously fully support. They want the ability to operate around the country and know that the rules of the road are basically going to be the same. Where the Carper amendment falls short, and my amendment deals with an issue, is the fact that there are 50 State AGs around the country who, as a result of the Dodd bill, are going to be turned loose on our community banks. What I mean by that is, the consumer protection agency, as it has been created in the Dodd bill, has no check and balance. It has a very large budget. It is renting space, if you will, at the Federal Reserve. So it has no prudential regulator that is overseeing the rules that it creates.…”