Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman Khanna for his very wise and insightful words. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the distinguished gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky).

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members participating in this Special Order hour with the Progressive Caucus have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include any extraneous material on the subject of…

Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to be here tonight on behalf of the Progressive Caucus to manage this Special Order hour along with my colleagues, who I will be introducing. Several of them will be joining me tonight to discuss what is going…

I thank the gentlewoman, Ms. Jayapal. We have next with us Congressman Ro Khanna who is from California. He is an economist, and he is a lawyer. He has taught economics at Stanford, and he has taught law at Santa Clara. He was a Deputy…

I'm going to build a wall and I guarantee you 100 percent Mexico is going to pay for it.

Mr. Speaker, I want to pause from our analysis of the specific terms of the bill that was unveiled today to ask the question: What is the value that is really at stake in healthcare policy in the United States? When we were debating on the…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 6 o'clock and 21 minutes p.m.), the House adjourned until tomorrow, Friday, June 23, 2017, at 9 a.m. ____________________

Wall Street reform created a more stable financial sector by strengthening the capital position of the Nation's largest banks.

These misguided ideas include additional layers of cost-benefit analysis, more obstacles to supervisory actions, weakened leverage rules, changes to stress tests that will allow the banks to game the stress tests.

Wall Street greed, the resulting financial crisis, what it did to millions of Ohioans and so many of our constituents is a lesson, collective amnesia in this body notwithstanding, is a lesson we need to learn, to remember, and to act on.

There is no evidence that relaxing rules will lead banks to lend more.

I think when you make the characterization of President Trump writing the policy, I think that is the wrong characterization.

The report takes as gospel that more lending and leverage is the best way to create economic growth.

I think all of us on this Committee want to look for ways to provide relief for community banks and want to make sure that all our regulations are tailored to accomplish their purpose.

I think you would agree with that, would you not?

Mr. Speaker, when someone keeps something secret, it is often because it is embarrassing or negative or damaging or unsupportable. Mr. Speaker, over in the Senate, Leader McConnell and some of these Republican Senators are doing just that…

None of us want to see taxpayer dollars wasted. But with DoD, they seem to go on with impunity.

I hope you will. OMB Director Mulvaney and I do not agree on everything, but we actually had a bipartisan amendment in the House of Representatives, which passed at least 1 year, to end the abuse of OCO because all of us I think should…