Ed Royce

one of the reasons that the private securitization market is not properly functioning is because the government is crowding out the private market through loan programs that make 90 percent of borrowers eligible for a below-market-rate…

The United States has the largest quota at the IMF.

We need to carefully look at the export control reform, perhaps move toward a single agency rather than just coordination between two agencies.

This is a critical issue in terms of both our economy, growing the economy, and at the same time protecting national security.

The effect of that is not only lost jobs in the United States, but also money flowing into the industrial base of countries that may be less stringent or even unfriendly to the United States.

we think the quota-based center of IMF governance should continue to be the dominant arena

The Department has insisted that the committee staff sift through thousands of pages of materials.

I applaud the administration for urging the Palestinians to accept that offer.

I urge the administration to continue to increase the pressure on Iran and to keep all options on the table until Iran abandons its nuclear weapons program once and for all.

I think this is the longest gap that we have had in the history of this position.

I believe that Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability is perhaps the foremost threat facing the United States and the world today.

I hope the administration would come to see the need to send nothing but the strongest signal that Iran's drive to develop nuclear weapons will be stopped.

It is critical for Serbia and Kosova that an agreement on normalization be reached.

In March, the acting USTR sent a letter to the Speaker noting his intention to launch negotiations of an E.U.-U.S. trade deal.

It is imperative that the U.S. Government send an unequivocal message to the Vietnamese regime that it must end its human rights abuses against its own citizens.

I think it is absolutely dire today that our Department of State and we in the United States and the Congress... express to the Government of Vietnam that they are backsliding.

I believe that the United States should use our diplomatic relations to try to influence and do everything that we can to support the people of Vietnam in their aspirations for justice, for liberty, and for freedom.

my hope is that the United States Congress carefully examines the seriousness and the commitment on the part of the Government of Vietnam to respecting human rights and basic freedoms of its citizens

His voice is sorely missed on the Hill here as one who spoke consistently for human rights, for religious freedom.

The President's budget, which is going to be released later today, stands as a reminder of the risk posed to the American taxpayer if the financial solvency of the FHA is not addressed.

But where we can unleash private capital, we should. And it is in the best interest of the taxpayer and our housing economy to do so.

Getting to this member business lending cap, our legislation right now has 90 House cosponsors.

Those are the ones that 85 percent of the time are turned down when they go, normally, for a loan.

I will just tell you what I have heard. And that is the stories about the jobs created or maintained in California through the access to credit unions.

What I see, when I talk to owners of small businesses--gas stations, hair salons, small manufacturing, light manufacturing--I very much hear this concern.