It is outrageous that the ethnic conflict has resulted in thousands, tens of thousands, of lives being lost through gunfire and killings of various kinds.

There is not a time that goes by where she doesn't urge me, I will say it in a nice term, to actually stay engaged with regards to the transit system.

So if that's the case, I guess one of your partners would be the transit union...

I'm willing to support his efforts to make sure that we get this right, and that means potentially expending political capital in ways that I wouldn't normally spend them.

They were not getting aid for the last several years. It was bewildering, aggravating, and angering that so many people would be bypassed.

However, I guess my concern is, is we need to put it in separate buckets...

I want to thank our witnesses today, and I also want to thank Mr. Rokita for introducing this bill.

Mr. Speaker, today I rise to mourn the loss of John Crutcher, who passed away on March 12, 2017, at the age of 100. A native of Kansas, John spent many years in public service, including teaching in a one-room school on the prairie. He was…

This kind of fraud and abuse is not a good use of hardworking taxpayer dollars.

We should not waste a dime of hardworking taxpayer dollars and to excuse this kind of abuse and fraud is unconscionable.

I am a small-business person and I understand every bit of that.

Ultimately, the staff report verifies what we have already known: that Washington simply is unable to accurately identify and define systemic risk.

And I guess my point is, is this not, this action by the FSOC of designating these three insurance companies, is it not an indictment of the State-regulated base form of insurance regulation that we have in this country?

The consumers are.

It's like going to the doctor, you are sick, but we are not going to tell you why you are sick or how you got sick or how you can get better, but we will let you know when you are dead. It's the same way with SIFI designation.

Interesting, of the four non-bank financial institutions, three, of course, were insurance companies...

And wouldn't you say that if we are going to go this route and allow for FSOC to ignore its experts and indict a State-based system of insurance regulation that we are essentially setting up possibly a two-tiered system, one of which that…

At least one went to court and was successful. And I think one insurance company went to court and was successful, MetLife.