by Allan Lengel On a sunny, muggy Sunday morning, roughly 100 people from Metro Detroit gathered to show love for the Fensters, who have been pushing for the release of family member Danny Fenster, a journalist detained in a Myanmar prison for 36 days. In a gathering billed as Calm for a Cause, people came to a recreational area in Huntington Woods, behind Burton Elementary School, to socialize with Danny s parents, Buddy and Rose, older brother Bryan and relatives, and to do yoga, meditate, listen to music and paint hearts of love on a slab of barn wood. People also bought Free Fenster T-shirts and were given lawn signs.
now i will briefly introduce our witnesses. deputy secretary of the u.s. department of the treasury. he is currently serving as a member of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. thomas curry is comptroller of the currency. welcome, mr. curry, to your first hearing before the banking committee since your confirmation as comptroller. marty greenberg is the acting chair of the federal department insurance corporation. and richard is the director of the consumer financial protection bureau. i thank all of you again for being here today. i would like to ask the witnesses to please keep your remarks to five minutes. your full written statements will be included in the hearing record. secretary wallen, you may begin your testimony. chairman johnson, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear today to discuss the implementation of the dodd-frank act. it will help protect americans from the excessive risk and poor consumer protections that play