Political Quotes

“I am so proud to yield as much time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. McCarthy), a distinguished member of the Financial Services Committee. She is a woman that has worked hard to bring a clear bill to the floor. Mrs. McCARTHY of New York. Just for the record, when my colleague was speaking, my name is Carolyn McCarthy, not Carolyn Maloney, just so we clarify that, and I want to thank Ms. Waters. I want to thank the ranking member on Financial Services. I have a speech here, but I need to clarify a few things. I am not sure, my memory has not been good since I was sick, but I was on Financial Services when we did Dodd-Frank, and we worked very hard, bipartisanly, on that committee, and we saw the problems on some of the language, and we corrected them bipartisanly. We made sure that when we were dealing with derivatives, that it didn't have the language that you are complaining about. That came from the Senate side. When we are talking about the insurance companies and making it easier to make sure they could do their job and not be treated like a bank, we got the language here on the House side. Again, the Senate side misinterprets some and had the wrong language. Gary Miller and I have been working a year--over a year--to make the corrections that are coming out today.…”