You think there's a way that we can cause the Volcker Rule to be altered so that the market making components that are very valuable to these foreign Governments that are issuing debt can continue? Yes? No?

I appreciate the nonanswers that I have received and I think that does speak to the difficulties of it and even though you gave me a nonanswer, I thank you for your service.

I thank the Chair for his leadership. I am here today to appeal to this body. I think the Presiding Officer, I know myself, and a whole host of folks in this body have been concerned about where the country is going. I know many of us have…

I was not a proponent of Volcker Rule. I did not think there was any reason to pursue it, but I do think there is a way to fix the Volcker Rule and move away from the prop issue and focus on at least maintaining liquidity.

I know personally on the claw back provisions I was very involved in ensuring that those kind of things took place so I am not sure exactly what the problem is now because it seems that we kind of dealt with that during the legislative…

I would just ask that all of those who care about the safety of our financial system... that populism can drive a lot of talent out that we want to see in the financial system.

I think we have to be careful. You know, populism is running pretty rampant right now, and that can really damage institutions.

I came down today to talk about the highway bill we are on, and I want to say I appreciate the way we are dealing with each committee's portion of the bill as we go along. I know we are on the base bill at present, but before I get into…

I do not understand why people have not thought about it in that way.

It appears that first lien holders are going to be taking hits while second lien holders are not, which is incredibly perverse.

I think that all three of you have said that Fannie and Freddie staying in their present state in perpetuity is probably not a very good thing.

I appreciate your testimony, talking about the fact that the lack of knowledge about what is going to happen...