If the gentleman would yield, the Wall Street Reform Act goes to the heart of both of those issues.

Excuse me. Are you telling us that banks own more homes than individual families do?

We will make it in America. If the gentlelady would yield, I would like to turn to our colleague, Dr. Kagen from Wisconsin. He and I were chatting earlier, and he was in a rage about what happens on the international scene. Would you like…

Do I understand you to say that, presently, our tax dollars that are used for water projects and sanitation projects purchase steel, pumps and other material which are manufactured overseas?

Mr. Speaker, if I might just review with you and others what's happened since 2007 here in the United States. As this diagram indicates, beginning in 2007, the Great Recession during the George W. Bush administration, reaching its lowest…

Before I turn to the gentlewoman from Ohio, I want to pick up that tax policy. American tax policy, probably set by both Democrats and Republicans in the past decades, gave an advantage to United States corporations that would offshore…

How correct you are. And we would reach out to our Republican colleagues and ask them to join us on Making It in America. We've had enough of our tax dollars shipped overseas to buy buses that are manufactured overseas, to buy trains and…

Representative Tonko, thank you so very much for bringing us that perspective. I am going to very quickly run through a scenario of policy changes that the Democratic majority in the House has approved by overwhelming Democratic majority…

We will not find any unanimity among the Democratic Caucus on that, but let's yield to Dr. Kagen.

Let's do it and then we can export them, too. I notice next to you the gentlewoman from the great State of Ohio. She is determined to change from the Rust Belt to the Future Belt. Congresswoman Betty Sutton is joining us. You are right…

Mr. Speaker, thank you very much. I want to spend this evening talking about manufacturing. Manufacturing matters. It is the foundation of any solid economy. It is the one part of the American economy that is seriously hurting, and with…

The gentleman is getting carried away. Let me just cut you off and say that there is no candle that I've lit that was not already lit by the Democratic Caucus. I came here just 8 months ago and much of this work was under way. You did…