Ed Perlmutter

And I applaud the regulators for putting a strong Volcker Rule in place to try to prevent this type of risk-taking going forward.

In Dodd-Frank we tried to, by an amendment, return to the separation of commercial banks from investment banks.

The U.S. posted a record December budget surplus as higher payroll taxes, payments from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and a declining unemployment rate helped improve the government's finances.

They have three children. They work two jobs. Neither employer of the mom or dad provides health insurance. Finally, after all these years, they have been able to get health insurance at about $150 using the credits that are available…

The old saying is that bad facts make for bad law.

I personally think that you can't operate in a vacuum, that you have to compare your price stability inflation versus how many people are working and what the economy is doing.

I thank the ranking member. Two hours ago, one of my constituents showed up in person at my district office in Lakewood. She was frantic and in tears. She just received her furlough notice last night. She's a Federal employee who has been…

I think this is a public safety issue. We now have 22 States, something that has to be addressed.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Connolly

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $15,000,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount…

I'd say to my friends on the Republican side of the aisle, to the majority party: Don't do this. This is wrong. This is not our Nation. We have built this Nation on equality, and that includes the equality of payment. Whether you're a…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Yoder). Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?

We need to have a little lesson in history here

I just wanted to echo Mr. Hoyer's comments. You and I have served together on the Financial Services Committee. We have worked together on legislation that I was proposing and that you were proposing, and working with you was always a…

Thank you for the opportunity the other day for us to have a moment of silence. I know it was important to the members of our delegation as well as to the people of our community in Aurora, Colorado, and the whole metropolitan area. I had…

And in my opinion, it wasn't the smaller banks that led us into the deep recession that we suffered in 2008 and 2009.

Thank you for maintaining a steady hand through all of this, whether it was kind of the collapse on Wall Street or some of the clashes that we have here in Congress ideologically that don't give the economy some of the fiscal tools that I…

In reclaiming my time from my friend from North Carolina, I would love to work with you, but this is the amendment we are proposing to this bill at this time. I am asking for a vote on this bill at this time. Mr. Speaker, again, this is a…

Should we all get robbed equally?

Thanks, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to the panel.

As I am looking at the recommendations of the Task Force, those--everybody calls them indirect investors--are sort of out of luck.

It is important that we do not competitively disadvantage or penalize U.S. financial institutions just because the United States is further along in financial reform than others in Europe and Asia.

Just as simple as that. Secured creditors. I am just trying to figure out what happened in that week advance.

I am just trying to hear--a lot of people lost a lot of money and I am trying to figure out, is there a way that could be--we could deal with it in terms of the law to stop this from happening?

Thanks. I guess my questions are similar to Mr. Capuano's as to who got paid and who didn't get paid here.