Political Quotes

“Madam President, let me thank my colleague from Colorado, a member of the Banking Committee, who has been part of trying to get this bill right over the last 14, 15 months. He has spent a career in the private sector, as I did. I think we both can read a balance sheet. We both understand it is the capital markets that drive the American economy. I think we both agree we want to keep America the capital of capital formation for the whole world. We don't want this to migrate to London or Shanghai or elsewhere around the world. We also know 18 months after we came to the precipice of a financial meltdown ought to be enough time to put rules of the road into place so we can give the market what it craves most, which is predictability. I will not go on at length. I had the opportunity earlier when the chairman was here, and I think, unfortunately, I probably spoke for about 40 minutes going through how we got to this point and all the things in this bill to put these new rules of the road in place. I will only make two or three quick points. One, in my 15 months here, as a new guy, I have never seen a bill that has had more bipartisan input than this piece of legislation. I had a great colleague in Senator Corker from Tennessee. We worked on the too-big-to-fail and the resolution piece. There are places that can still be improved. I would love to work with Senator Corker on some technical amendments to make this better. But this was a bipartisan piece of legislation.…”