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Madam Speaker, let me first thank the chair for her leadership and friendship on our committee. Madam Speaker, just a little bit of history. I want to take you back to 1860. President Lincoln won the general election in 1860 by winning 18…
I share my colleague's desire for us to come back together and reunite in the committee room.
We must ensure that electricity consumers like those not only in my district but many of your districts will continue to have access to affordable rates.
Madam Speaker, recently, two high school members of the Shelby American Legion Post 82 were selected as participants for the Boys Nation program in Washington. This is the first time that the Shelby American Legion Post 82 has ever had two…
This is part of their broader goal to dismantle the financial system as we know it.
This one seems to be an egregious example of this problem.
We can all agree that the credit reporting industry is in need of reform.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
We should be promoting competition to create better opportunities for consumers.
I see this as a problem... for my constituents and for my colleagues' constituents.
Let's not create a new problem... a government-run agency.
Nothing got done last Congress on this... because there is no willingness to have a bipartisan conversation.
I am hard-pressed to find a worse idea, frankly, than to federalize and, ultimately, socialize credit reporting in this country.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight the NSF for the Future Act, a critical piece of legislation that would bolster our Nation's research enterprise and enhance our status as a world leader in science and research. It is so wonderful…
Can you imagine the IRS, the Post Office, or the DMV compiling and maintaining your credit report?
A massive new government-run database of consumers' personal financial information would be a sitting duck for bad actors.
The government should not be the central repository for all financial data available on its citizens.
Madam Speaker, today I rise to speak on the recent ruling by the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs to allow taxpayer dollars to be spent to provide sex reassignment surgeries. I have been a board certified urologist for 30 years, so I am…