We are not going to have a second round, but I am going to exercise the Chairman prerogative.

Thank you publicly for the hard work and efforts you do not only for advancing equal access to justice, but so much you do in our community.

We remain at a momentous crossroads in our economic recovery--the big banks propped up by the taxpayers are back to prosperity, but everyone else has been left behind.

we have done too much, as I think Barney Frank talks about the collateral benefit that to help the whole country we have had to help some people who aren't deserving of help

I was the initial person to suggest we should raise our FDIC rates here in Congress.

Rather than abandon our bankruptcy system, Congress should strengthen it.

The lesson of this history is not that America should avoid the Bankruptcy Code as a means to resolve failed financial institutions.

The Obama Administration has a different proposal, which only threatens to hasten our next crisis.

In an environment where a few banking giants are dominating the market, it is important that we keep the antitrust laws at the forefront.

Today we meet to consider the critical question of whether the Administration has met its burden of demonstrating that the bankruptcy code should be set aside with respect to large, non-bank, financial institutions that are critical to the…

I voted for the TARP, but the continued egregious and--conduct of the companies that received it in getting these bonuses... does make it difficult to continue to support such actions.