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It's estimated that, by the end of this decade, the hedge funds will own some 40 percent of the single-family rental houses in America.

My father, the mechanic, would ask the question, why is it that working people who earn their income by the sweat of their brow pay a higher marginal rate than do millionaires getting a return on their already existing investments?

I can speak confidently for House Democrats when I say we are firmly committed to reauthorization of AGOA and HOPE before their expiration next year.

House Democrats have collectively shown an impenetrable commitment to the people of sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti.

But reauthorizing the programs without improving them is a missed opportunity.

It's hugely irresponsible for us to just say we can try to fix the insurance market, and fail to address the underlying causes

I just held a group of town halls, nine town halls in Eastern Oregon, and the town hall for town hall, people came forward to say hey, I came to say I got a problem.

I absolutely think the public has a strong interest.

I think in a democracy it's important that our laws be transparent and public to the maximum extent possible.

I think the laws have got to be public, and that means basically someone ought to be able to sit in a coffee shop somewhere and read a public law because that's what our system depends on.

I feel very strongly that sources and methods have got to be secret and that has got to be a sacrosanct principle in the Intelligence Community.

Current FISA law prohibits the Intelligence Community from collecting GPS information on Americans overseas without a warrant.

It's hugely irresponsible for us to just say we can try to fix the insurance market, and fail to address the underlying causes

Is it responsible for Congress to say we're going to ignore the enormous damage that climate change is doing across our country?

I just held a group of town halls, nine town halls in Eastern Oregon, and the town hall for town hall, people came forward to say hey, I came to say I got a problem.

I absolutely think the public has a strong interest.

This is going to be an ongoing kind of process between, you know, sources and methods--got to be secret--and public law so people can sit in a coffee shop and figure out what in the world is going on back here.

I think the laws have got to be public, and that means basically someone ought to be able to sit in a coffee shop somewhere and read a public law because that's what our system depends on.