Spencer Bachus

But removing all that information you promise us that you don't want, you don't need, you are not going to share, why even receive that information?

Wouldn't it be a better approach to say, 'Take all that out, and then send it to us?'

At what point will all this come out--you are saying their religious affiliation, their languages spoken. At what point will it come out?

When you give us assurances that you are not going to use this information, like personally identifiable information, all we really have to go on is that in the Federal Register, your agency has asked permission to collect all this…

I am concerned about the impact of the merger, and we have had some conversations with both sides on this...

And, boy, this comes pretty close to a burden on interstate commerce.

So this is to not create any kind of double taxation or deprive any particular state of the ability to collect income tax.

This is not a revenue raising bill. This is a bill to bring some uniformity to the 50 states...

If my income tax is going to New York and my children are being paid for teachers in Alabama, that just doesn't seem fair.

I cannot stand by and support legislation that would dismantle government and a century of progress under the guise of symmetrical enforcement.

First, reform our entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.

Let me say this: the gentleman from Georgia has talked about these regulations all being necessary, but the President himself on the campaign trail said we need to repeal unnecessary Federal regulations. He stood right here in the House…

But our response wasn't to go to Mexico or China. Well, it was, really. Our response was to raise our standards or tighten our standards to be three times more stringent than the EU. It would have cost all the profits of the cement…

I will tell you. One thing this taxing policy may be doing, it may be driving companies to become basically internet companies.

Almost every day I get solicitations, as do most Americans, for financial products that appear to be sponsored or promoted by the government.

Many people--my constituents and others--get calls from card servicers, which are--it is a fraudulent enterprise, I think.

The community banks are affected.

The Volcker Rule is the law of the land. It actually is not the law of the land.

I felt like universal, unilateral adoption of the Volcker Rule by the United States will only undermine our competitive advantage.

I voted for and proudly then, and support to this day and continue to.

Its passage by Congress in 2010 was an acknowledgment that insufficient regulation led to the problem of the so-called 'too big to fail' financial institutions.

The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power has been events by experiments ancient and modern. To preserve them must be necessary as to institute them.

Members on both sides are frustrated, because we do know that we have a broken immigration system.

It is inconsistent--and, Professor, you said this--with our democratic values.

I think for most of us or all of us--we are, as the sitting Chairman said--in a bipartisan way, the bigger problem that I was focused on was criminalization of drug cases and that sector and that we are, by a multiple of many times…