Isn't that amazing, that so close to the Mall you will not find more valuable property in the District of Columbia than this property?
It is inconceivable that any private owner would have left this land vacant for decades.
Where is the plan for development, not just of the Cotton Annex, but for development of this extraordinary parcel of land?
This market that Congress has asked us to oversee helped cause a crisis.
I think in a targeted way, I am just talking about the CFTC because I think, Congressman, you and I probably share the view that we need to ...
We are very concerned, but I have to be candid, that in light of the difficulty we are having in getting a bill through here...
I think that going back to the genesis of this market, and it happened in Senator Durbin's State, in Chicago, in the 1860s, when a wheat far...
CFTC is a good investment of taxpayer dollars because it supports the farmers, ranchers, producers, and commercial companies in each of your...
I believe we have to come to grips with why this country continues.
It's part of our democratic process that anything that we do, somebody could move into a court.
I think that's part of the reason why we want a well-funded CFTC because the nature of the market is so heavily toward the financial actors ...
I think that every participant in a marketplace can influence a price.
Simply increasing funding does not ensure that an agency can successfully achieve its mission and frankly is not a realistic option given cu...
We're not trying to do this against a clock--I know when I first said that, people didn't believe me--but here we are almost 2 years, and we...
So, in 2012, CFTC will finish implementing the Dodd-Frank Act rules.
We cannot afford to ignore our country's fiscal reality by failing to make difficult decisions to address our debt and deficit problem.
It's about helping producers, merchants, farmers, and commercial companies in your States to use these futures and swaps.
called the February 4th veto outrageous and accused Moscow of standing with a dictator.
