I think it is wrongheaded.

I am concerned that requiring banks to hold more capital than appropriate will unnecessarily increase costs for consumers and reduce bank investments in important areas such as cyber security.

What it does is that becomes our ability to actually share it with this administration and future administrations as we work to try to show how we are helping communities.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to join my colleague opposite in support of this particular resolution. I am actually an original cosponsor of H. Con. Res. 16, which authorizes the use…

Instead of coming up with plan on how you won't exist, would you be willing to work with this committee and come up with a plan how to reform, expand, and consolidate some of those other programs?

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H. Con. Res. 19 that indeed authorizes the use of the Capitol Grounds for the annual Greater Washington Soap Box Derby on June the 15th. Now, Mr…

I have had is I will get calls from local city council people that have filled out paperwork, only to find out that they have got to fill it out again and again and again.

As we look at this in conducting proper oversight, we are going to count on you to help us with that oversight and making sure that we are effective with those programs.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses.

A critical part of recovery is also bringing back those jobs and making sure that the communities have those jobs and the infrastructure there.

It is unfathomable to me that the President would want to eliminate the only federal agency that is specifically focused on local and regional economic development.

Would you be willing to work with this committee and come up with a plan how to reform, expand, and consolidate some of those other programs?

Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Hartzler) for her leadership. It is a good testimony for all of America when we see the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield as much time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Hartzler) for her explanation of what this bill does.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Hartzler) for her leadership on this legislation. Nothing is so valuable as someone who looks at a problem, sees the problem…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support. I thank the leadership of the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Mrs. Craig) and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mast), and I urge all of my colleagues to support it, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mast), the sponsor of this particular legislation.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1331, the Local Water Protection Act. I thank my colleague from Minnesota (Mrs. Craig) for her leadership and my good friend from Florida (Mr…