On the recordMarch 10, 2010
First, I would like to thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks) for the time, and I appreciate all of the work that he has done on this bill. Indeed, I would also like to thank all of the Members who support this bill, including Barney Frank, the chairman of the Financial Services Committee, who made sure we got the bill up and going and we could expedite it in a way I have never seen any other bill expedited. I thank Spencer Bachus, the ranking member of the Financial Services Committee, whom I have worked with for over 10 years, appreciating that he understands so very thoroughly the history of Haiti and what it means to the world. I thank Gregory Meeks, again, the chairman of the International Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee, whose manager's amendment added so much in the way of improvement to this bill, and the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen), the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Eliot Engel, chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, and all of the other cosponsors of the bill, and especially the Congressional Black Caucus.
