DENNIS A. CARDOZA: “Because ultimately, we are put in place to protect the public interest, and if we lose confidence in these markets, it…”

I will just ask my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me in sending a strong message to the Department of Housing and Urban Development that the foreclosure programs they have put in place have not worked for America. They need…

we have a duty, I believe, to raise human rights with dictatorship and not lose that opportunity.

What is not open to debate is the fact that 1.7 million Americans today and over the next 3 days and over the last few weeks have lost their unemployment benefits. That is an emergency. That's why we have emergency spending provisions. We…

A few years ago when I first came to Congress, I introduced an ethics bill that said if you break the public trust...