Well, this has been a very informative session, and you both handled your testimony in a very intelligent, knowledgeable way.

I want to follow up on the House Appropriations Committee reported an appropriation bill that reduces your funding for the CFTC by more than $10 million.

Let me go back to my line of questioning because, after all, one of the major purposes of this hearing is for the reauthorization and your budget and appropriations.

I value that. I think it is very important for us to sustain that.

I'm looking to you to make sure that there is a mechanism in place that assures us that the border is secured before permanent legal status is applied.

The most tough-minded answer to that question demonstrates that rebuilding and protecting New Orleans is in the national interest.

You have the voice of a judge--very melodic, and I just wanted to make that comment.

I think race has an enormous impact on decision after decision. I think you almost have to be blind to America and not realize that we still have very, very deep elements that go all the way back to slavery and segregation and that go all…

Mr. President, first, before the Senator from Tennessee leaves the floor, if he was getting ready to, I wish to commend him on his activities over the last 8 days. For the second time in a decade, we came to the brink of making a bad…

This letter demonstrates that Mr. Perez, as of that day, had still failed to comply completely with a subpoena issued on April 10, 2013, for information to be considered. I recognize that Mr. Issa is not a Member of the U.S. Senate, but he…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the rule as well as the underlying bill, H.R. 5, the Student Success Act. I want to thank also, as others have, the gentlewoman from North Carolina for her continued leadership on an important…

Mr. Speaker, it's getting hot in north Georgia, and when it gets hot in north Georgia, I think of cut grass and I think of football, and I think of the lessons that I learned as I was growing up on that football field at Riverbend…

I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, there is a lot this country can do to improve education in our Nation and to empower our kids to take on the challenges of the 21st century. But those changes must be considered and debated and adopted…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to appeal for immediate action. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act. My dear colleagues, casting a ballot is our most sacred right. We have a moral duty to come…

I am really worried about this bill. It sort of reminds me of like a Darth Vader, sort of a dark star that kind of sends us on the dark side.

We have had a need to respond, and I have listened to this discussion, and nowhere in this discussion have we considered the plight of the American people, the struggling homeowner.

But I want to--what I am after is, will not this cause havoc to the--I am not worried about the rich folks.

I think one of the things, in my district and the district you serve--you have 30 counties, I have 20 counties--very agriculturally diverse, we are more with livestock but also poultry, also what we call the ``agrarian tourism'' with the…