Hillary Clinton Quotes
There's nothing magic about regulations, too much is bad, too little is bad.
Clinton, Hillary. "Democratic Presidential Town Hall." CNN, 4 Feb. 2016.
in the Meltdown of 2008 Gramm was one of the most ideological deregulators in Congress. As the Meltdown of 2008 hit, he immediately made this statement when few people even knew the extent of what had happened, much less why it happened. Gramm’s instant absolution of deregulation as one of the causes is a classic case of denial. There were few economic issues of controversy that did not contribute to the totality of causes. And a few years later Gramm was one of the very few ideologues who still believed that deregulation did not have a role in the Meltdown and the Great Recession that followed. For a contrast from the expert in his own party, see {638023}.
Federal rulemaking is a complicated arcane process as a result of Congress making it harder for Federal agencies to make rules. Although Congress could legislate any rules, many members prefer not to go on ecord as supporting some rules. Others watch what the public reaction is and if good, they support it and take credit and if bad, they complain of the "overreach of unelected bureaucrats". However, they do not want rulemaking to be fast or efficient; they want the time to decide where they stand. IN 2017 The incomming Trump Administration wanted to repeal many of the Federal Rules that had been made in the previous Obama Administration. However Trump and his team was not very experienced politically and ran against the politicians. They were surprised that it was as hard to repeal Federal Rules as it was to make them in the first place as this quotation explained
He was referring to Fannie Mae, the government-created. private mortage guarantee company. It was heavily regulated, and in general it met the regulatory requirements. However, the requirements were insufficient, and in the 2008 Meltdown and the Great Recession that followed, Fannie Mae itself was in such bad financial condition, that the Federal Government had bail them out or have the entire home mortgage industry fall apart.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She was the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election; however, she failed to win the Electoral College.
