Jim Himes

Our country will never get back to normal until people are held to account for their seditious and their violent actions.

This is a man who incited a situation where the presidential line of succession, the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, the Speaker Pro Tem of the Senate were at risk.

The President on the day he pardoned murderers and liars is saying, I'm going to deny millions of Americans, the food and the sustenance that they need.

People -- there needs to be an intervention by Republican leaders in the Congress to go to the President and say the time is up, you have to accept that there is a change of power here. It has to be peaceful. Otherwise, we're going to…

I have no reason to believe the President isn't going to pardon everybody who demonstrated loyalty to him.

Well, John, I have a shallow thought and a deep thought. The shallow thought is that a flurry of pardon suggests that at some level, Donald Trump knows that he is going to not be president in less than a month. The deeper thought is, you…

If we don't take a very strong and clear stance and retaliate, and I do mean retaliate, depending, of course, on what we learned about what the what the cost was to us, the Russian -- the whoever pulled this off, we'll do it again.

This, of course, is what the new President Joe Biden is going to have to fix when he takes office on January 20th.

There's only one thing that has ever mattered to Donald Trump, and that is deep, deep loyalty to him and to him only.

And, you know, you can imagine -- it's Roger Stone, it's Paul Manafort, it's any one of the half dozen of people very close to the President, who undoubtedly have stories to tell about the President's behavior who are being told, stay…

In this case, of course, the president used it at in the very best breeding, to do a favor for somebody who provided the President with a one thing that he understands that it's a loyalty to him.

It's sad because the pardon power, it's a -- it's a very unusual power, right. It's completely unchecked. And it's designed to give our system of justice something that it doesn't naturally have, which is mercy, you know.

That feels to me like a hostage situation: Give me the money for free or we will not take it and we will fire people.

I would like to believe we could do fewer rather than more.

The government is very, very much in the business of bailouts.

What is wrong is when corporate insiders take advantage of inside information.

There is a need for this.

We should all be looking to increase the number of Americans who feel like they have a stake in the equity of their economy.

I want to suggest to my Republican friends that this is far from a waste of time.

No, I have not. But I think I have time.

We applaud the House for approving the Public Citizen-endorsed insider trading reform bill authored by Representative Jim Himes.

Let's at least be humble about what we have achieved.

Our stress test scenarios suggest that the banks are in good shape, and a large part of that is due to the Dodd-Frank Act.

Representative Donna Shalala and I are working together on a bipartisan basis to make sure that the Fed and the Treasury do implement the bipartisan set of limitations connected to the Fed and Treasury financial products and services…

An awful lot of businesses are going under anyway, already have, and certainly will.