Bob Corker

Again, I'm a strong supporter of the dietary supplement industry, from the standpoint of being a consumer and just seeing so many people use these types of products.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

So, in essence, the fact that these two products were sold--and, while that hurts your industry and y'all are self-policing and not really charged with making sure that these things occur--the fact is, the FDA and the FTC should have…

It seems, also, that, in earlier testimony, that the disease claims--and you said so, just a minute ago--the claims of these particular products, and their ability to keep a disease from occurring or getting it--is the most serious claim…

I think one of the things that we should do here in Congress, before we look at passing new laws, is try to make sure the laws that are on the books are actually implemented appropriately.

I know, you know, Senator Hatch certainly has talked about the funding that has lacked at the FDA, but is that the only issue that has kept y'all, for 16 years, from implementing some of the things that originally were put in place in 1994?

I would like to go back and say we began the process of looking at financial regulation after the crisis that occurred a couple years ago, where institutions all across this country made loans--very poor loans--to people who used that…

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…

It's amazing how many people in this country have a direct relationship with Haiti.

If I could, I haven't really noticed that much desire to please each other around here, but I do thank you for the fact that it is a 50-vote threshold. I had been told prior to coming down that it was 60, so thank you for that. But I do…

Look, the fact is, we had a bipartisan agreement that has been throttled back. There is a chance--I understand. That is what I am saying. I hope the cosponsors of this amendment will at least support it on the floor. I do not think there…

I do wish to say that the Chamber of Commerce has just sent out a letter. I thought I would make everybody aware they are urging people to vote for both amendments also. As a matter of fact, they are key voting this. This is one of those…

I do hope the Senator from Virginia and the Senator from Delaware will support my amendment, since they both cosponsored it originally. I know Treasury has been over and has had a talk with people back in these backrooms. I realize the…

The term 'cluster' creates a little bit of a concern

This country is a sovereign country. And we should respect that.

I have generally good feelings, personally, about President Preval, and--I think he's a nice man.

I give my wholehearted endorsement to a new, technologically-based approach to solving the problem of impaired driving in the U.S.

I realize that in this body, as I said that day on the floor, nothing ever works out exactly as you wish. This bill is not going to be exactly the way the Senator would wish. We are going to pass a bill that, to me, is incomplete. One of…

I thank my colleague from Alabama for the work he has done in trying to craft a bankruptcy title that more fully suits financial institutions. This body is an interesting body because you don't have the chance to do anything but vote yes…

I think everybody in this body knows the core of this last financial crisis was because there were a lot of loans written in this country that people couldn't pay back. The Dodd bill does a lot, but it doesn't deal with that basic core…

I rise to speak about an amendment I had earlier today. It was a commonsense amendment that I think gets at the heart of this financial crisis. It didn't pass, but the amendment was to put in place underwriting standards to keep the kind…

What this amendment does is restore within the housing market a focus on the core issue that took us into this crisis--something many people in this body do not want to discuss--and that is the fact that there were a lot of loans written…

In Florida, we know this was the very problem that started this whole crisis. We called them NINJO loans--no income, no job. Underwriting standards went out the window because of the hunger of Wall Street to suck up these mortgages, to…

The Dodd bill attempts to deal with quarterly liquidation. I know there have been discussions about the pros and cons. There have been attempts to deal with the derivatives title. My sense is, before it is all said and done, there is a…

We spend a year and a half working on financial regulation in this body, and there are a lot of fancy things we are looking at that certainly need to be looked at, no question. It is amazing that after all this time, we are still not…