William M. Thomas: “Virtually everyone agrees these reforms would be good for the House and good for the American public.”

I, too, am pleased to take the time to remind all Americans that the Armenian genocide was the first genocide of the twentieth century. I think it is ironic that, as we are speaking now in memory of the first genocide of the twentieth…

that ringing you hear in your ears is the Democratic spin doctors; we just heard another one trying to tell you that, when the President's plan was offered in the Subcommittee on Health yesterday, it was done just to embarrass the…

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.

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.