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.

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

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

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.

I rise this morning to express the extent to which I am proud of my constituents in southwestern Connecticut in Connecticut's Fourth Congressional District, but also to observe that just as in this country we have work to do in addressing…

Last Saturday night, Christopher David, a veteran of the United States Navy, was walking in Portland when he came upon an odd sight: Federal agents, in full tactical gear, heavily armed, looking for all the world like the operators that we…

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…

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

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

I was a little sad to hear my Republican colleague say that Ms. Jayapal's proposal is somehow way out there on the fringe.

I am very sensitive to programs that ultimately use public money to allow corporations to avoid bankruptcy and service their debt and ultimately pay dividends.

And thank you for your extraordinary efforts and the efforts of the Federal Reserve to contribute to the emergency rescue that we have all witnessed.

There is not a person present at this hearing who isn't disgusted by the actions of that police officer, and the officers at the site who did nothing to stop it.

I thank and compliment the chairman and the ranking member--and the chairman and ranking member of the Committee on the Judiciary--for doing such good and bipartisan work at this rather tense and polarized time around reauthorizing a…

We saw it under the Bush administration in which the CIA and George Tenet, the director of the CIA, famously characterized the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a slam dunk, because that's what the vice president, Dick…

CRA is nonpartisan. CRA is about helping people. And if we truly need to help people, we have to do it now.

For the last 2 months, the House has been riven by the process of impeachment. It has been emotional, divisive, and challenging. If you noticed, many of the statements about impeachment started with some version of this: Impeachment is the…

I have a motion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Himes moves to reconsider the vote on passage of H.R. 729. Motion to Table Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to table. The…

What is the balance of time available? The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I thank Ranking Member Waters for yielding me time. I rise very briefly to welcome the amendment by Mr. McHenry. Mr. McHenry raised four substantive points. Three of those points are incorporated in this amendment, which we are very happy…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I rise, delighted today by our consideration of H.R. 2534, the Insider Trading Prohibition Act, because, after years of work, we are going to produce a bipartisan product which actually does address a…

I thank Chairwoman Waters for yielding me the time. I rise in reluctant opposition to this amendment because it has been a hallmark of this process that I very much enjoyed working with Mr. McHenry and Mr. Huizenga. The reason I rise in…