I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 241, noes 185, not voting 7, as follows: [Roll No. 641] AYES--241…

Please know that Democrats are committed to full funding for the SEC because the Commission provides the first line of protection for investors.

I am just pleased to learn from my staff that our companies are doing a better job of reporting, that--and it is working, and that from the first report to the second report, we see a marked improvement.

And we believe that, of course, the entire continent has been exploited for far too long and that the people have not benefited from the rich resources in many of the parts of the continent.

I served on the conference committee of Dodd-Frank, and I worked with Barney Frank on this issue.

It is not so much private contractors; it was your governor, it was your State that did not trust the citizens.

Let's build on those successes and gear our legislation and funding towards building on those successes.

We cannot get around the fact that we need dollars, we need money in public housing.

We worked together with housing advocates to shine a bright light on problems with recovery efforts.

We trained you in California.

I want to close the wealth gap, and I have come to understand very clearly that it is not simply through wages.

as Congresswoman Waters alluded to earlier.

If we would fund transportation by the Federal Government in a reasonable way, we could rebuild our roads and our streets.

I will never forget that picture.

I introduced legislation, H.R. 1227, the Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery Act of 2007, to help reestablish housing options.

We have to increase minimum wage. Everybody is talking about getting to $15, et cetera.

Somehow, people don't understand or refuse to accept what poverty does to children and families.

We are a long way from replacing public housing in New Orleans, which is what I so staunchly advocated for post-Katrina.

We all have a responsibility to be about the business of economic development, opening up contracting opportunities.

if you have the flexibility, we have to stop putting these grandmothers out of these units...

It is about understanding, a deep understanding and support, and in the final analysis a lot of love.

I joined the people of New Orleans to mark the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

So that motivates me to be on the side of the least of these.

You know you have the authority. You understand that Dodd-Frank gives it to you. You use it.

At the same time, Congress is considering legislation that would do severe damage to the new standards the Fed has implemented.