But regulations are needed in order to protect the public interest.

But even with the rescue of the financial industry, Main Street America was feeling the economic pain as millions of Americans were losing their jobs.

There are things called market failures.

The heartbreaking unemployment hurting American families today stems from the Republican philosophy that Wall Street banks should be allowed to operate free from regulation.

I don't want anybody to get hurt. But the fact is that people do get hurt when we have a mismanagement of the economy...

The auto bailout was a success. Why are we fighting against what was a success?

House Republicans seem to want to return America to the era of the robber barons.

I think there is an appearance of unseemliness. And that is why I think the system we have for funding campaigns is one that we ought to definitely change.

House Republicans seem to want to return to an America that pre-dated the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Great Society.

A robber baron is a government that steals money from middle class hard-working taxpayers and gives it to rich bundlers like Solyndra.

The rich and powerful want to stay rich and powerful. And the less government gets involved to make things fairer for everybody they will get richer and they will be more powerful.

And now that we have opened the campaign laws to unlimited and dead-end unreported contributions from corporations, I don't think that the lower income people are going to benefit.

We can out-compete China. We can grow a stronger and better America, with jobs and opportunities for everyone who works hard and plays by the rules.

That doesn't make sense to me.

The solution isn't to end regulation, which is what I hear from the Republicans, or to put in people who won't enforce the regulations.

The market failure of insurance for health care. People cannot buy it if they have preexisting medical conditions.

I would think it is critical for the U.S. and other countries that have seen the positive impact of the Internet on their economies to highlight to the ITU participants and other stakeholders of potential negative consequences of the…

Today, the House considers a bill that represents a significant bipartisan achievement. Our work to find a common approach to legislation to support and strengthen the FDA is truly remarkable. It has been a pleasure to work with Mr. Upton…

This bipartisan consensus is reflected in H. Con. Res. 127, a resolution introduced yesterday by Chair Bono Mack and cosponsored by Chairman Upton, myself, Chairman Walden, and Ranking Member Eshoo.

It is an important hearing as we look down the road to an international conference where some of the proposals, if adopted, would fundamentally alter the way the Internet operates today.

Those of us who are speaking on this motion to instruct the conferees are from the Energy and Commerce Committee, not the Transportation Committee, which developed the fundamental underlying bill to which this pipeline issue has been…

Before I yield to Mr. Rush from Illinois, I just want to make a comment. We need to get ourselves off of our dependence on oil whether it is from the United States or overseas; and if we go along with this pipeline, we are increasing our…

May I inquire as to how much time each side has? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Chaffetz). The gentleman from California has 5 minutes. The gentleman from Georgia has 8\1/2\ minutes. The gentleman from Kentucky has 8 minutes.

I'd like, at this time, to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cohen).

I'm pleased at this time to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey).