We're going to have a lot of lessons learned--or at least the opportunity to have a lot of lessons learned at the conclusion of this process.

As part of our oversight duty we need to make sure that we are asking the hard and tough questions of the community.

I appreciate, as a member of this Committee, particularly on the minority side, the way that you have conducted yourself as Chairman.

Madam President, I rise briefly to address a few remarks made by the senior Senator from Iowa and to compliment my colleague from Tennessee. But first, regarding all of these talks about our Founding Fathers and our Constitution, if our…

Jobs is certainly the priority of our Nation. There are currently 14.5 million Americans out of work.

I am on record as saying we shouldn't have a Volcker Rule.

I think we should be very conservative in the way we implement the Volcker Rule.

I think that actually the Basel capital rules have much more of an impact on lending decisions of banks than anything, particularly in Dodd-Frank.

We, at least, Congressman, should require that any regulations now in process be subject to cost benefit analysis.

This is very frustrating to me, and I think very frustrating to the American people when we are trying to talk about jobs.

I believe fundamentally that what has been lacking in the rulemaking process of these agencies is any serious cost-benefit analysis.

FSOC is not the answer to our structural problem.

I thank you for coming here. Joe Barton really has been dedicating his life to these types of issues for his long tenure in Congress. But I always wonder if sometimes people back home are sitting around saying so what does this mean to me…

Reclaiming my time, I believe the Governor pointed out that of the million new jobs created in America in the last 5 years, 3 years, something like that, 850,000 of them were created in Texas. We are a dynamic economy; and we are a dynamic…

As we fight this fight, this fight is not just an oil and gas fight. This is going to affect power plants around the country that are operating under natural gas, coal, oil, any kind of hydrocarbon. This is just the tip of the iceberg of…

I thank you. At this time, I yield back what little time I have, and remind everybody that the stars are still big and bright deep in the heart of Texas. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 44 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 10 a.m. for…

Reclaiming my time, that is exactly what is going on, Mr. Barton. They are all indications. You can stop your new neighbors and ask them why they came, and they will tell you because Texas is where things are happening. It is where you…