Consolation. Bless as well the men and women who serve our nation this day in our armed forces. May they and their families be assured of our deep gratitude for their service. O god, you have blessed every person with the full measure of your grace and given us the bounty of your spirit, lead us this day in the ways of peace. We pray for peace in our hearts , that we will be freed from selfishness or envy, that we will replace any enmity with goodwill and hatred with charity so we might lead lives of generosity and kindness. May there be peace in our world among all nations. May each nation sense its shared destiny and in a new spirit of hope and trust, one with another. Help us to be men and women without excuse and may all that we do this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The p
And the Community Banks. The Community Bank said, we will oppose any bill that puts us into the same regulator. That was the reason. That is what stop that. We could not overcome it. It was something i thought about before. There was no way he you could pass a bill over the strong objections over Community Banks. Were ready to lobby hard against this because they did not want to be with the big banks. Draft,009, i proposed a what i called a discussion draft of the bill. In the midst of all this, the Political Considerations work is shocking to some. Votes too get enough pass it. The reaction was overwhelming, for a number of reasons. The regulators were going to be out of a job, so they were opposed. Not a lot of constituency interest in the subject matter. I say respectfully of our colleagues, the idea of consolidation. Ts of consolidating, we grew if i had a magic wand, the one consolidation we would have rational world would you have a Security Exchange commission and the sharingies
Now, former Senate Banking Committee Chairman christopher. And former House Financial Services chairman barney frank about the financial crisis and the work they did. It is just over one hour. I want to introduce the moderator for this session but before i do, i want to point out that everything we discussed this morning and after this because theoot doddfrank act rose alt all of those issues and we dont really have to do with those anymore. I also want to thank barney frank for begetting with the spirit of the program. He knew we were going to heaven Abraham Lincoln lookalike contest so he grew a beard. We are delightful for that. Take no offense but if you read an act of cong larsonhe and jim siegel are as responsible as that statute as dodd and frank. Amy is the Senior Deputy comptroller of the currency and chief counsel. Ats is her second session the occ so you can see she is say she is occ through. Seriously, if you get to read that book, you will have great admiration for somebod
Where she announced that she had actually called joe biden that day or the day before to tell him that she no longer wanted to be considered as a possible running mate because Amy Klobuchar believes and she told joe biden this that joe bidens running mate should be a woman of color senator Amy Klobuchar will join us later in the hour tonight the day after the Washington Post poll showed donald trump running a full 15 points behind joe biden, donald trump tried to revive his president ial campaign in a White House Briefing with reporters that was supposed to be about the coronavirus epidemic in this country. What could possibly go wrong it almost could not have been a bigger disaster for donald trump. And i say almost because, of course, it can always be a bigger disaster for donald trump and the Trump Campaign and one way it could have been a bigger disaster is if the president had gotten a question about intelligence reports saying that russia has been paying to kill american soldiers
[applause] [applause] 30 years legacy on the core. Please welcome our host, Jennifer Mascott for the study of the mysteries of say at the Antonin Scalia law school. And john malcolm Vice President for Constitutional Government i want to welcome you all to the Heritage Foundation. On behalf of the heritage grace center, today has been a special day, and it is still a special day. We are delighted to be here honoring the 30th anniversary of Justice Thomass appointment to the Supreme Court as an associate justice. [applause] we have been fortunate to have Justice Thomas here before. He was our 2016 story lecturer. We are thrilled that he is here with us this evening. With that, i will turn it over to my cohost jen. I hope you enjoy the evenings program. Thank you john, good evening. The sea void in grace center is thrilled to hold this event for the Heritage Foundation to commemorate the very soon even milestone of Justice Thomas is 30 years in the Supreme Court. Justice thomas is now the