My bill does not provide for health coverage, disability payments, or payouts of any kind to Merchant Mariners who serve...
insuring that individuals who sacrifice so much in service to our country, receive the recognition they deserve is one o...
This legislation would expand the acceptable forms of documentation used to determine eligibility for benefits as a Merc...
Seeing this bill signed into law is a personal priority and I am hopeful that this hearing signals that I am one step cl...
For the past three Congresses, I have led a strong bipartisan effort to recognize individuals that served our country du...
He has worked tirelessly to protect families from predatory and deceptive lending practices.
He was instrumental in enacting the Dodd-Frank Act and in supporting its anti-predatory lending provisions.
Congressman Watt is an outstanding choice to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
The chairman has been a strong, unflinching voice for those that, many times, never have a voice here on Capitol Hill.
But I want to just say thank you for highlighting this. And the chairman is correct; when we highlight things, it may no...
that is huge because there are those that will sign on to a piece of legislation based on the humanitarian aspect of it,...
we are having to spend major economic dollars to go into these countries in Africa and Central Asia and other places, th...
Let me just say to my colleagues, Mel is a good man. He is a good husband. He is a good father.
Above all, Mel always prioritized service to North Carolina during his more than 20 years in the U.S. Congress.
Finding a nominee for Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has been a long time coming.
Dodd-Frank law simply granted an incredible amount of power and discretion to Federal regulators to enshrine future taxp...
Dodd-Frank does not end too-big-to-fail, and systemically we went through those section by sections of Dodd-Frank.
The shocking inability of the Financial Stability Oversight Council to perform one of its core functions: identifying ne...