Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time for closing. Mr. Speaker, I applaud Mr. Vargas' efforts to work on this bipartisan bill and appreciate that the reforms in this bill have been structured in a way to incentivize credit union boards to take steps to ensure their institutions are safe, sound, and well managed. This bill has broad support, including from credit unions, like the California and Nevada Credit Union Leagues, to consumer groups like Americans for Financial Reform. I am pleased to work with Mr. Vargas to advance this bill through the House. I was pleased to do this in the last Congress. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time for closing. This is the case on the House Financial Services Committee, when we see a challenge that has a commonsense solution, we try to tackle it and we try to tackle it in a bipartisan way. I want to concur with Mr. Huizenga in his praise of Mr. Vargas. This was a bipartisan bill between Mr. Vargas and Mr. Huizenga last Congress, and it continues to be a bipartisan bill this Congress. I thank my colleague, Mr. Vargas, for offering it, and I thank the ranking member for working with me and with my team to bring these three bipartisan bills before the full House in the opening month of Congress. Mr. Speaker, I urge this bill's adoption, and I yield back the balance of my time.”