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

The community banks are affected.

We welcome Bradley Byrne as the newest member of the Alabama delegation. We also welcome his wife, Rebecca, who is in the balcony with his four children: Patrick, Colin, Kathleen, and Laura. Bradley asked me--and I think all of the Members…

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

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.

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

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.

I appreciate the chairman yielding. Mr. Chairman, I have great respect for Mr. Conyers. He has been my chairman and is now my ranking member. I, too, see this as a very simple proposition. However, I have a different point of view. I…

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

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…

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

I thank the chairman for yielding. Madam Speaker, for one night, let us talk about what is good for this country and not about the other party because it is going to take both parties to solve our problems. As chairman emeritus of the…

I am not retiring as much as I am not seeking reelection.

I think a lot of the problems that the Bureau of Prisons is experiencing is a failure of the Congress to respond to reforming our sentencing laws.

our population overall, when you go to the 1940's, we were at 24,000, and in 1980, our population was 26,400.

I plan to do that because I have looked at this just this week and talked to two different Senators.

It just amazes me. Let me give another statistic that is hard to believe.

Some couldn't afford it, I'll say to the gentleman from Virginia, the gentleman from Georgia, and the gentleman from Tennessee. Several million Americans were suddenly being forced--some elderly, some children--to pay $20 more for what had…

The gentleman from Fairfax, Virginia, has just told us that we have avoided the fiscal cliff. I wonder if our children and grandchildren can take any comfort in that. I had no idea that the deficit and the debt had gone away. I had been…

It's an honor to talk about some courageous children who are changing the way that we think about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It affects nearly 20,000 babies a year in the United States, robbing them of the muscle development they need to…

How can you justify asking me to pay somebody else's mortgage? I struggle to pay my mortgage.

It is almost impossible when you have a government-sponsored entity for it not to subsidize someone else's mortgage with your tax dollar.

Once you start, once you put it out there, it is almost impossible to end it.

Well, of course, I think that would almost argue for a streamlined process because many times we do have an environmental impact and then there are court appeals and things are tied up for 10 years or 8 years and then we are told we have…

I cannot support the bill.