I applaud you on moving forward in that area.

I hope you will take a look at that as well.

Yes, I am very unsatisfied with what we have got.

Virginia Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie on the left of your screen has conceded defeat in an unexpectedly close race. Democrat Mark Warner will keep this seat.

I rise today to discuss the passage of the Government Reports Elimination Act--a bill that will eliminate or modify 53 Congressionally mandated reports. In 2010, we passed the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act, which…

We ask the Senate to pass Senator King's bill, which is cosponsored by Senators Warner and Tester, so that lawyer trust accounts held at federally insured credit unions have insurance coverage on par with that of FDIC-insured banks.

Can you get me data on how many call and how you respond to that?

I cannot understand why the Ranking Member did not list my bipartisan legislation as well in that litany, the RELIEVE Act.

we keep saying these things, and yet if this keeps going, the whole nature of small institutions being able to served particularly rural communities is going to disappear.

I just want to publicly say I look forward to working with you and other Members of this Committee to do this kind of at a macro level, because it really needs to be done.

I think the regulators have kind of--echoing what Senator Moran said, with the best practices approach, have used what was intended for large institutions to creep down to smaller.

But it is happening. I mean, community bank after community bank, when you take--you look at the one place that is expanding is the regulatory staff, which, again, back to Ms. Hunter's comment, makes them in a very competitive market even…

I come to speak today on a question of enormous importance. Before I do so, I wish to take a moment, as I was just with the majority leader and the deputy leader and a number of our colleagues where we held a ceremony in commemoration of a…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorize to meet during the session of the Senate on September 10, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. to conduct a hearing entitled ``Cybersecurity, Terrorism…

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My fear is that while we put that in as a legislated exclusion under, I believe $10 billion cap, that kind of best practices creep has kind of come into that.

I am concerned about the increased leverage ratios among some of the broker-dealers.

I really do question whether we, as well intentioned as we were, whether we got it right in Title I and Title II in terms of ending the too big to fail.

I am again looking at what is happening, or not happening, for that matter, around the country on equity fundraising.

I think it is time for a fix-it bill around Dodd-Frank.