I strongly support H.R. 1105, the Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act.

I honestly don't know whether disclosure is going to fundamentally alter compensation in this country.

Well, that is some progress, and I thank you, Doctor, for your responses.

What I see us doing here this morning is undermining the basic reproductive rights of women by prohibiting any abortion after 20 weeks.

It has been said by one of our esteemed Members of this Judiciary Committee that when Members of Congress attempt to play doctor, it is bad medicine for women, and that is what brings us here today.

One of the really harmful consequences of this bill, in my opinion, is that there are some fetal conditions that cannot be diagnosed before the 20th week of pregnancy.

The letter makes several points. One, that fetal viability is generally regarded as occurring at 24 weeks gestation...

If this bill had been law when you had to face your ordeal, your doctors would have had to risk jail and a lawsuit if they provided you with the medical services you required.

If a child is born alive, that child is a person under the law and has rights. One of those rights is to proper medical care, period.

So you think that your liberty, along with your husband, in consultation with your doctor to do what was best for your family would have been precluded by this bill?

But the many Americans who see the world very differently, including millions of women who value their personal autonomy, can be forgiven if this looks like just another battle in the Republican war on women.

I understand how personally important this is to some of my colleagues, and they are certainly entitled to their beliefs.

We support her effort as a sensible proposal that we believe will lead to better rulemaking by the SEC.

Who will ultimately pay the price if fiduciary standards are broadly applied with little regard to the cost or restrictions on choice that would come with it?

The first thing I would like to note is that the discussion draft amending Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act that I have circulated is just that, a draft.

As you know, we have already referred to here to extreme weather events such as the horrific tornado in Oklahoma earlier this week and Super Storm Sandy which visited my part of the Country which seem to be occurring with greater frequency these days.

What are some things that we might be doing to better ensure that our nuclear plants are safe?

I just urge the Chair of the NRC to be as responsive as you can be to those concerns.