Congress – Snippets – 2010s

  • 2012 0124 – GOV (House) – How Will the CFPB Function Under Richard Cordray, Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
    • [PDF-107pVIDEO-CSPAN-02:35:51] 
    • Unreasonable Advantage of Consumers vs Reasonable Advantage of Consumers
    • 1:59 – Trey Gowdy (R-SC):  Senator Warren never answered the question.  Dodd-Frank – Unreasonable Advantage of Consumers – Duties of Consumers in regard to Educating themselves
    • 2:00 – Richard Cordray, CFPB, Educate yourself, High School, People have to be Responsible for their decisions, what we can do it make clear / transparent, if they make a bad deal… they’ll have to live with it… nobody is going to make a magic wand.
    • Trey Gowdy (R-SC): note that he has answered the question.
  • (p60) – David Schweikert – (R-AZ) – Are we going to wake up tomorrow and find out that the shadow on the horizon, the black swan was something that because of the concentration of the way you look at the world you completely miss?

2015 1208 – GOV (House) – Oversight of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), Jeb Hensarling (R-TX)   —   [BonkNote]