William M. Thomas

Yes, Dodd-Frank has become law. But as the Administration begins to move in the direction of regulations, you ought to bring them in and examine it again, because I think many of them overreach.

That is a prime example of overreach, in my opinion.

Community banks, basically when you move from that model of originate to hold to originate to sell, got pushed out of the home mortgage market pretty significantly.

What scared me was the first regulation coming out of Dodd-Frank was on the rating agencies, and they said they wouldn't do it and you guys blinked.

When you are looking for victims and villains rather than essential causes, it is easy to examine the same set of facts and arrive at diametrically different conclusions.

What can you do with a Commission that is created, and less than a month after it was created, the President offers his solutions and the Congress moves forward with their solutions?

I would say to her, it's OK to come forward, to come forward and to tell the truth in this case. The agony that these young men and their families have been put through, I simply cannot describe to you in words.

I would say to her, it's OK to come forward. To come forward and to tell the truth in this case. The agony that these young men and their families have been put through, I simply cannot describe to you in words.

I want to join my friends and constituents in the community of Taft, California in celebrating Taft's 90th birthday.

These reforms are the kind of legislation we should see more of from the U.S. House of Representatives.

Saving taxpayer dollars, cutting costs for the regulated community, and ensuring speedier resolution of cases are all a net gain for the voter and our electoral system.

Virtually everyone agrees these reforms would be good for the House and good for the American public.

These reforms may not make headlines, but they are the most significant legislative changes in the operation of the FEC we have seen in 20 years.

I believe we have taken an important step towards improving our election process.

I want to particularly complement the Chairman for the inclusion in this bill of three key and much needed reforms of the Federal Election Commission.

My belief is that it would be more than that because Shays-Meehan is not the completion.

Then the counter was 15. But the 15 years then was accompanied by language which made it an absolute necessity or it would not be approved. So it was not just the 15-year addition. It was additional language which limited the options and…

He did not make it here. I was accommodated. I used my time, and then the chairman goes ahead, and this is typical of the way in which you turn things. The chairman goes ahead and then, in inference, accuses me of sandbagging the…

That is the dialog we have had all along. The fact is they wrote the bill, it was in it and they were not going to let it come out all along no matter what. It was the question of losing 1 square mile, not necessarily where it was, it was…

It is geography. But I also pointed out in the letter and to the folks on the committee that the amendment did not block in any way the application of the Endangered Species Act or other laws. I just wanted to keep the option open for…

Yes, more than several years ago I testified. I just said, perhaps the gentleman was not on the floor at the time, but I said it became apparent to us when we examined the final iteration of the maps.

I appreciate the responses of the chairman. Mr. Chairman, so although we do honor the memory of ``Tip'' O'Neill in 1994, it will be done in a frugal way, which I think is entirely appropriate with the politics of the '90s.

I would say only that we have got to be able to work out some way to continue B. I do not care what threshold screening is put upon the category B, frankly, my school district can meet any level of screening necessary, and we ought not…

That key has controls, the structure which controls the flow of money, through which every American will be buying their health plans, you believe, is not a key element of the President's plan?