Herb Kohl: “The immediate sense of crisis, fortunately, seems to be passing.”

I rise for one final time to address the Senate. My remarks will be brief. Actually, I just want to say one thing: Thank you. I wish I could say it with the eloquence of one of my first friends in the Senate, Senator Dale Bumpers, who told…

Senator Kohl. But I understand, and I think the records indicate, that your reported loan-to-deposit ratios--your other big banks, their reported loan-to-deposit ratios are 10 to 20 percent higher than yours.

What we can't assume is that these problems will correct themselves.

I rise today to thank Rabbi Baruch Frydman- Kohl for his invocation this morning and welcome him and his beloved wife Josette to the Senate. Rabbi Baruch's father Jack and my father Max were brothers and Europeans during the First World…