Joe Baca

When you take an airport, which is a key asset for this region's competitiveness, and you eliminate its ability to allow companies to be competitive, then you reduce the ability for us to draw those firms.

If we don't go to local control and expand Ontario Airport, then the traffic congestion will increase.

Stop wasting taxpayer money, yes.

What is the most important message that we, as Members of Congress serving in Washington, DC, can send to the Federal Aviation Administration regarding the ongoing negotiation to return Ontario Airport to local control?

I believe this is an area that we can dissuade many that believe bipartisanship is not truly available and does not truly happen, because it does.

We have to allow it to grow and develop and hold those accountabilities to allow community banks and others to do the right thing for the American people.

I appreciate the Dodd-Frank legislation because it is important that we do have accountability and we have those kind of regulations.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount insert the following: ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''. Page 32, line 18, after the…

It seems like from the other side of the aisle they want less regulations, but we have to keep in mind that the regulations are good because we have to protect the consumer and the stockholders.

I would like to just state that Jack Nicklaus was not a tall man--he is like me and like many others--but he could hit the ball a hell of a long ways. It is quite an accomplishment when you see someone like him that has the rhythm, tempo…

The American people must have OVERSIGHT and the ACCOUNTABILITY to ensure that all derivative trading occurs in light of day, and is above the board.

I agonize over the jobs that will be lost because businesses are no longer able to effectively manage their risks.

Across the Nation, Americans are calling for Congress to take immediate action to create new jobs. Instead of working on a bipartisan agenda to create jobs, Republicans are moving a transportation bill that slashes the infrastructure…

If Congress does not act soon, 160 million Americans will see a tax increase at the end of the month. Working families in my district rely on the payroll tax cut to make their mortgage payments or put food on the table. We need to get to…

That is why the Frank-Dodd legislation came into existence, to make sure that we had a lot more oversight and accountability.

Where is the money? Where did it go and why? We want answers.

The American people are tired of their funds being spent somewhere else in foreign depositories.

The American people must have the OVERSIGHT and ACCOUNTABILITY to ensure that consumers are protected.

Apparently, we need a lot more oversight and accountability, and that is why we need the Dodd-Frank Act as well.

We are seeing a higher volume of people applying for the SNAP program due to unemployment and also because the Bush tax initiative has not created any jobs.

This bill, the FFSCC Charter Act of 2011, would establish a much-needed platform for financial services innovators to flourish and serve the underserved.

The goal of the legislation is to provide access to short-term products and safe, transparent--instead of reinventing the wheel, the bills work with what we have.

Today, we are here to discuss the credit crisis and how it impacts the unbanked and underbanked population in this country.

We should have clean water. We should have good water, and we shouldn't have to worry about the effects.