Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady. I would just say to my friend from North Carolina, I appreciate the fact that this is new, but I think when we are dealing with these small investments and lots of people, just as with a charity, you'd like to know that most of it's going to the charity and not to the solicitation effort. That is why I would say this is important, so you know that it's getting to your investment and not to the sale effort. So I would support her amendment. Mr. McHENRY. Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I would ask my colleagues, do they disclose on their campaign Web sites how much it costs to process a credit card contribution? Exactly. I don't know if my colleagues are making those disclosures when folks are contributing to their campaigns. So this restriction is actually a creation of Congress. I understand the issue. It's a very powerful issue on compensation. This was never raised in the two subcommittee hearings I have had on capital formation on the TARP in the Financial Services Subcommittee of Oversight and Government Reform, nor in the legislative markup at the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, nor during the subcommittee markup nor the full committee markup in the Committee on Financial Services. {time} 1650 Furthermore, I would point my colleague to page 6 of the legislative text. We have investor protection requirements for intermediaries that go on for, really, three pages. This specifies a lot of investor protection.…”