Al Green

This agency, in my opinion, merits a great deal of independence given what we went through with the debacle as it relates to financial institutions.

The debate today and for some time now has really been about how independent the CFPB will be.

I believe in oversight. I think oversight is of paramount importance.

I believe the President did the right thing.

I also beg that everyone on the panel along with everyone here in the room now that you have heard my testimony that you would raise the voice and do something to help the Vietnamese women from suffering from human trafficking.

I would like to be able to prevent this from happening to other people.

There is concern. There is concern. And the Vietnamese people have raised these concerns.

I am concerned about persons who were left behind.

I am very concerned about human trafficking and one of my concerns, quite candidly, when properly distilled becomes simply is human trafficking, a euphemism for involuntary servitude, which is a euphemism for slavery.

I'm grateful to each of these men for giving me this opportunity to be a part of this committee, temporarily.

This is not a problem for Democrats or Republicans or conservatives or liberals. This is an American problem and it deserves an American solution.

It is better to build a strong child than to repair a broken adult.

I also would like to thank the ranking member, Mr. Gutierrez, for his efforts in these areas, as well.

I just don't want this to metamorphose into a later time when you are not here that we need to eliminate it because there was fraud.

And you want to see that criminals are caught, don't you?

It makes sense to get three. It makes sense that it might help. But it also makes sense to me that a determined criminal will find a way to manipulate the system.

I guess at some point, Madoff will come in, and we will try to find out how we can better strengthen the SEC to make sure that we can prevent crimes from occurring.

I think that persons who commit crimes should be caught. I think they should be appropriately prosecuted. And I think that they should be appropriately punished.

It is a question of will. The question is: Will we take up the responsibility to secure this country?

We have millions of people in the country that we cannot account for, in terms of knowing who they are.

I think without MTW flexibility, these programs couldn't exist.

The influence of the United States is very important for maintaining something like that in the institution.

The American dollar is important to the American economy as a currency of choice.

There are people who can benefit from this individually and families, but more importantly, the country benefits.

I am supportive of what they do and wanted to make sure that we got this in the record.