Lloyd Bentsen: “Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.”

I am not sure why we are debating this amendment in the first place; but the fact that we are, I think there is one flawed argument that has been made. If one cannot use the money for hard purposes in the first place, I do not think one…

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

In fact, that is true. We now are projected to pay three times the amount of interest over the next 10 years, almost $2 trillion, as opposed to a little more than half a trillion dollars that we were looking at last May of 2001. This is $2…

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.