We have had in our country the highest levels of long-term unemployment since the Great Depression.

Powerful special interests always get a say in Washington, but today I want to make sure that some of these seniors' voices are heard.

The Older Americans Act has been a nearly 50-year promise enacted in the same year that we created Medicare.

I think we find ourselves in another unique situation where bureaucrats in Washington know far better how to run our community banks and our credit unions than our community banks and our credit unions do.

Home ownership is associated with the American dream, and so many more Americans aren't going to be able to access that dream because of these rules.

But if you are from a lot of our districts, this is tough.

I want to move back to our salary conversation, not to beat a dead horse.

Are you aware that we have $17 trillion in national debt?

I have dropped a bill to that effect, so maybe we will see how much support we get from the CFPB.

I think it is fantastic that we have a bipartisan understanding that Dodd-Frank isn't perfect and that there is room to improve the law that was written a few years ago.

I would like to thank each of the witnesses for very excellent testimony.

We are not going to take that kind of 'no' for an answer.

Nobody should be convicted of a crime that doesn't have the intent to do something that the law forbids.

This is a vast undertaking, and we are operating under somewhat of a time limit because the life of task forces are supposed to be 6 months.

I think this confirms the point that all of us have been making on this issue and demonstrates the breadth of over-criminalization.

I had a hand in drafting, requires that the business records FISA warrants, or orders, be directed solely at foreigners.

How can Section 215 be utilized to scoop up the phone records of American citizens who are not in communication with a foreigner?

There are no due process protections in place because the recipient of the FISA warrant can't tell what records he's turned over.