Lloyd Bentsen: “If we fail to fix [the system] now, the next financial crisis we face will again reveal its flaws.”

What we are seeing is a situation that enables banks to shop for the most lenient Federal regulator.

let me start out by congratulating the committee for putting together this legislation and putting together the conference report. This is a very good bill. I think it says a lot about the Congress that it has been able to respond as…

Mr. Speaker, last night in his address to the United States on the administration's policy towards Iraq, the President laid out his indictment of the Iraqi regime and particularly its leader, Saddam Hussein. In doing so, he answered a…

Last year when we began putting together the budget for fiscal year 2002 and really putting together the Republican economic program for the next 10 years, we were told that the unified budget surplus would be $5.6 trillion over the next…