I guess I am looking for a specific statement from you about how important you think this is.

It is certainly not something that anyone should want to ignore or anyone should want to shut down an agency tasked with an independent oversight in this area.

Instead, you have used the Bureau to serve the wishes of the most powerful financial companies in America.

I care deeply about student loan debt for the reasons that I was a professor, but also because I am a parent.

I appreciate that and you said you think it needs to be looked at.

I think what he meant, and I think what is fair to say is that we learned new things.

Yes, of course, we're in a tough spot here because there is now very clear evidence that the president may have committed a serious crime while president of the United States.

It's clear we were lied to.

I think anybody looking at that would say trying to stop a story that you had an affair with a porn star is something that would certainly be material to Americans' decisions on how they vote for president.

I think he was more comfortable and the proceedings were a lot less adversarial.

There is a case to be made that that is evidence that the President, knowing that something's about to happen that would benefit him on the part of WikiLeaks or the Russians and saying, 'Do it. Go ahead. Please do it.'

It is Valentine's Day, and we have all spent the evening together, which is kind of funny. We did it in the service of keeping the government open with a bill that funds the government in a strong, bipartisan vote, and that is a good…

If Congress wants you here, you come. If you don't appear voluntarily and Congress thinks it's important, you will be subpoenaed.

I'm encouraging people to remember that you've got three investigations out there, House, Senate, and the Mueller investigation.

If the president knew that these contacts were going on, authorized these contacts... that gets you pretty close to anybody's definition of collusion.

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This Congress has the chance to right this wrong by passing legislation to repeal PLCAA.

I thank very much Madam Chairwoman for yielding, and, again, to the ranking member. It is a delight, as I said before, to come right out with a bipartisan bill that really addresses the fundamental question of confidence in our markets…

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So here we are together in the House of Representatives on day 33 of the government shutdown. We have all been back in our districts, and like me, I suspect have all heard from people who are really starting to suffer as a result of this…

There is nothing normal about this.

But where it could become seriously problematic and illegal, of course, is whether the president suggested, asked, demanded that Michael Cohen say any particular thing, certainly if that particular thing was not true.

Yes. Well, that statement says couple this I think so to me. First of all, obviously, it's a complete repudiation of the president's previous position which is he had nothing going on in Russia.

Look, nobody would hire Rudy Giuliani to be their defense attorney in the classic sense of the word if they were being charged with a crime.

I very much appreciate the advocacy of Chairwoman Waters, but this is fundamentally not a partisan issue, and I appreciate the ranking member making the point. This is a reputational issue, and I want everyone in the Chamber to understand…