Congress is in charge here, not the Federal Reserve.

I think those things are extremely important.

What we need is a strategy which addresses the long-run sustainability issues.

The best way to address the problem, at least in the near term, would be to reform the way those numbers were collected so that the LIBOR rate that was set would be, in fact, an accurate representation.

I think the choice is between spending and taxes, and the mix and the kinds of taxes and so on, I think that is really a congressional responsibility.

The most effective way that the Congress could help to support the economy right now would be to work to address the Nation's fiscal challenges in a way that takes into account both the need for long-run sustainability and the fragility of…

I think it is extremely important that we address too big to fail, and this is one way to make banks take into account that their own size does impose a cost on the rest of society and make them respond to that.

We have been in communication with the British Bankers Association. They made some changes, but not as much as we would like.

I think just delaying everything, just saying we are not going to do it, put it off a year, I think that would be a very bad outcome.

It would be better to make that plan soon but to have the effects come in more gradually.

Then you find another $101 billion, another $101 billion in annual tax on health insurance providers not paid for by those folks who make more than $200,000, but paid for by the hardworking, everyday folks like my granddaddy and my momma…

Mr. Larson, thank you for yielding me the time. Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this partisan charade to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This is the 31st time the majority has orchestrated a vote to repeal in whole or in part…

Madam Speaker, why are we here? We keep hearing that from my friends on the right--why are we here again today--and the reality of it is simple. The numbers keep changing, and it simply does not add up. A long time ago, in 2010, a long…

Mr. Clarke, I would say that without any question the issue of education is not an African American issue; it's not an Hispanic issue. It is an American issue. It is an American tradition that for all access in this Nation, the power of…

Thank you, Congressman Clarke. Let me just thank Mr. Clarke for focusing on the issue of education and, specifically, the issue of literacy. I will say that as a kid growing up in a single-parent household myself, living in poverty, I did…

I was hoping to keep that a secret, but I thank the gentlelady from Florida for outing me as a lawyer.

Well, it is certainly not the law. That is just DOJ policy.

You know, we have to have confidence in the outcome, and you have to have confidence in the process. So why not do what lots of Members of the House and Senate have asked and have a special prosecutor? Why not do it?