Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, we have talked a lot during this debate about investors, and I want to be clear that when I say ``investor,'' I am talking about people saving for retirement, their children's education, and to purchase a home. I am talking about Americans who have saved a few dollars in a mutual fund or purchased a few stocks. These are the investors, and it is their rights that this bill tramples on. It tramples on their right to vote on and to offer proposals to strengthen companies they own, their right to information to evaluate their investment, and it undermines the regulator who works to protect investor rights. This is taking us back. This is undoing the traditional investor rights that we have enjoyed for so long that are now being stripped while there is an attempt to undo what we are trying to do with climate change. Well, I know that they don't believe in the science and what is happening with climate change, but this is going way beyond what I thought any of my colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle would do. I understand that large public corporations want this bill because it would allow them to take investors' money but ignore them in every respect. Shareholders are the legal owners of these companies, not the executives. Mr. Speaker, I think the executives simply forgot who they work for.…”