Steve Cohen

I also sponsored Chairman Conyers' amendment to the financial regulatory reform legislation now being considered on the House floor and debated this morning.

For me, the foreclosure crisis particularly hits home.

HAMP does help people. I mean, to the extent we can help any person who is in foreclosure, we should try to do it.

I just would like to see the consumer treated fairly. That is all.

This Congress has acted earlier. I cosponsored and helped champion Chairman Conyers's bill, H.R. 1106, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009.

I congratulate Mr. Wells on the blocking of the field goal.

I would like to thank all of our witnesses for their testimony today.

Great. Thank you so much, and I appreciate the Committee's indulgence.

Did you discover a pattern throughout LSC or just random violations that were not anything uniform throughout the corporation's agencies?

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.

Oversight and not increased funding and lifted restrictions is what is needed today and in the foreseeable future.

Thank you, Ms. Ragland.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Given, however, that this Subcommittee is charged with ensuring the effective functioning of the Nation's bankruptcy system and the three-part system of government that we have had for 200-and-something years, we take a keen interest in…

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…

Our thoughts and prayers continue for the families of Continental 3407 as we focus all of our efforts to doing everything possible to make sure that an accident like that never happens again.

It is the professional responsibility of every professional pilot, if he or she does not feel sufficiently well rested, to say so and not fly.