I do believe that if Congress had intended to provide private activity bonds for a passenger train traveling 80 to 110 miles per hour, as Brightline does, then Congress would have laid that out.

how in the world can you say that one dollar in Title 23 funding would qualify somebody for a PAB?

I'm the most conservative on private property rights of anybody on this dais, I promise you being from Western North Carolina.

This is a good idea to make our hearing platform available to colleagues.

I guess this is, what, the 40th anniversary of your authorization, but also the 40th anniversary of civil service initiatives that, quite frankly, sometimes hamper and hurt your ability to get jobs done...

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Affordable housing has risen to the top. It should have been at the top all along.

If CEOs would only go into their own phone system, they would change it immediately.

I found the vast majority, in fact, the overwhelming majority of them want to just serve this country and do their job.

I want to thank my vice-chair for his eloquent opening remarks and questioning and pitch hitting.

I am one of those people who firmly believe that access to capital and liquidity are probably the lifeblood of a stable and vibrant flow of commerce.

Mr. Speaker, there is no question that the Nation's warfighters are among the bravest and most selfless people in the world. It is fitting that grateful Americans often find a way to thank our servicemen and -women for their defense of our…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding. It is a great honor to be with the gentleman here tonight, and I commend him for his great leadership on this issue. This really, really is a great, great bill. The Supplemental Nutrition…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Florida (Mr. Ross) for leading the fight on this issue, and also for the support across the aisle on this issue. Mr. Ross' bill corrects another oversight of the Dodd-Frank Act by reforming the…

Yes, so it makes me wonder whether or not some people are just laying the predicate to nationalize our financial--our banking institution here, and they are willing to have some of these victims just lie along the path to their end goal.

because of regulatory overreach consumers are not getting the loans they need, including the kinds of loans his family relied upon to live in a mobile home back in the 1970s and 1980s.

I do not necessarily think that the Federal Government needs to weigh into it.

If I could come out with this enormous, this horrible story about how you have destroyed a business or somebody else's personal life back in my State, you would just tell me to pound sand if that is something you wanted to do, right?