We are going and asking the questions that we are afraid to ask, knowing what the answer might be.

We recognize that the number one priority of this Congress has to be lowering the 9 percent unemployment rate.

To the extent that crowd funding can match ready capital with quality investment opportunities, it will be a success.

Congressman Himes of Connecticut sponsored legislation to raise the bank shareholder threshold for SEC registration from $500 to $2,000.

I am not quite sure we have delivered on the promise of the cost savings.

It allows the public to comment. Before the rule is put forward, it allows for the people to weigh in on it.

Cost is a consideration.

Those choices come with a cost, don't they?

the transparency and accountability of the normal Federal rulemaking process has now been circumvented

This can be a win-win situation for investors, small businesses, unemployed citizens, and our national economy.

the States are having to live with the consequences of the Federal Government not doing its job.

New York is the number one location in the country for marijuana possession arrests, and it is people of color.

the Administration is making a very concerted effort to diminish those funds, put them down to a point where they are starting to approach zero.

illegal immigration truly is the fault of the Federal Government, isn't that correct?

The public is against it. More of the public now is for decriminalization than is against it.

Many, many, many young people, particularly people of color, are arrested for possession of marijuana which shouldn't be a Federal issue.

Marijuana is not the problem. It is turning a whole generation of young people against the system.

The whole program in this country with marijuana arrests has been a failure for 40 years.