The bigger banks that were diversified didnt fail. We did it anyway. The big banks didnt want to do it because it was a cross subsidy to the small state banks. The savings loan refused to go along but they refused to take their own and ensured next year. The second thing is we tax equity before you can pay the equity holders. This is a huge incentive for all the banks. To leverage as much as possible. And so the bank capital went down from 20 to 5 , the regulatory minimum, immediately. And those sentives still exist today. So in the postwar period, america was on the winning side of the war. We had a lot of economic stability. In the 60s, the homeowner ship rate, to act 65 . Totally funded by private savings loan deposits and mutual savings banks. Now, the homeowner ship at the time was considered a very good thing. There were no political incentives that we can speak of. America was the land of opportunity. Either they had the zipging house or they continued to save. They didnt take c
I appreciate what the secretary is doing with the restructuring and coming up with a strong internal audit system. However i must express that i am skeptical about how that is going to work. We have the whistleblower protection act but its not enforced. My concern burst of office we have heard so much testimony in thandthe committee about a cultf secrecy and culture of retaliation, and retaliation is a huge deterrent to hearing the complaints. So my first question is to you we heard theres been retaliation against employees. I encountered there is retaliation against patients who might feel they have a complaint against a facility. Are you aware of any retaliation against patients or veterans . I think thats a really important question. Im not aware of any retaliation in part because my Agency Jurisdiction is for employees to come forward with retaliation complaints or disclosures of waste, fraud, abuse or Health Safety problems. Someone could come to us if they thought that a patient
I like to say that we are in a highly constrained environment here in washington, d. C. I think we can all agree to that. Is there more that you can do . If there were more funding, is there more that you could do or are you at a point where you recognize the reality that funding is in short supply and the chances of maybe getting more is not so great at this point . What is your sense of that . One thing is to do more with less. For instance, in the area of designing educational curriculums, we have our own inhouse studio. We create the content that we use. We dont have to use thirdparty vendors. I can be expensive. We leverage our partnerships with various companies. They service the distribution platforms. Where we need to be further engaged is getting in front of the schools on a nationwide basis, not on a community by community or even statebystate, but on a nationwide approach because we have the ageappropriate messaging. It is not a onesizefitsall. And we can track these kids fr
Responsible into bring them and bring them to justice. Are joined by the dutch in australian ministers. We extend our deepest condolences to those countries, the families of the people they represent an all the people who lost loved ones on that plane. Today givese here even greater urgency to our call for the dignified return of the victims in our pursuit of truth and justice. As we reflect on the immeasurable loss suffered by the families around the world, we are not only outraged at the attack itself, we are horrified and enraged by what has happened , by the clear intention of some to obstruct an investigation. Even after adopting this resolution, it is worth asking if there is really consensus this crime merit an immediate and impartial investigation why did we feel the need to meet today in order to demand one . We came together because that everyone has been supporting a real investigation into this crime. If they were, International Experts would have had unimpeded access to th
To see that as a threat and a security situation to be locked down. And while i think that that perspective is understandable and i think its borne of a good intent to secure the boarder and secure the homeland, when you look at the facts, were spending 18 billion a year right now unprecedented levels of spending weve doubled the size of Border Patrol in the last ten years, we have or record low northbound immigration attempts, record southbound deportations, and el paso is the safest city in America Today four years in a row, actually, bordering on ciudad juarez, what is the largest Financial Community in the world. San diego is in the top ten safest cities, honolulu, another port city, is among the top ten safest cities. So i want to hear you talk about the opportunities at the border. In el paso alone, we have 22 million pedestrian and auto crossings every single year. Its the life blood of our economy, and its the life blood of who we are as a community. That is in addition to the