Ed Royce: “The gentleman from Alabama and I have disagreed in terms of this issue of systemic risk regulation.”

I plan to introduce legislation with two objectives: The first, to explicitly prohibit Fannie and Freddie from engaging in lobbying activities while in conservatorship.

In closing, I thank my colleagues, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Engel; Major Brian Mast of Florida; as well as the leadership on both sides of the aisle, for their bipartisan work on this resolution. The Syrian…

As they say, never again, and here it is going on with the international community held spellbound in the middle of it.

We cannot expect Vladimir Putin and his corrupt associates to change their behavior in Syria, in Ukraine, or anywhere else until we prove we will hold them to account.