the only thing standing between us and this meaning being meaningless and between them believing that the banking system doesn't work is trust and faith in the fact that it does.

This is really about people's faith in organizations like yours and like the one that you're testifying in front of today.

I thank Mr. Pallone for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Dangerous Synthetic Drug Control Act, which will reclassify 22 dangerous synthetic substances as schedule I substances subject to the control and enforcement…

To my friend from New York (Mr. Zeldin), perhaps we didn't get a signature, but we got compliance from Iran on their obligations to stop their production of nuclear weapons. {time} 1215 I want to take the rest of my time to hopefully clear…

As the designee of the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Courtney), I offer amendment No. 3. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 15, line 13, after the first dollar amount, insert…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Connecticut will be postponed. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Griffith The CHAIR. It is now in…

I am delighted to offer an amendment that was authored by my good friend and colleague, Joe Courtney of Connecticut. This is an amendment that would provide, on a budget-neutral basis, $300,000 to the national park system for the New…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 114, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $50,000,000)''. Page 115, line 7, after…

My amendment does one very simple thing, which is to increase the funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission by $50 million, bringing the funding in this bill for the Securities and Exchange Commission to the level of funding for…

I appreciate the gentleman's perspective, but I disagree. He is correct that, in fact, the funding for the SEC has risen in the last 8 years, but so has the dramatic amount of work that is required of it. Mr. Chair, I will close with just…

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 Connecticut will be postponed. Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. DeFazio The Acting CHAIR. It…

a lot of us subscribe to a point of view held by much of the economic profession, which is that this place, the Congress, abdicated its economic role in 2010 in favor of austerity

many of us appreciate the position that the Fed was put into, and many of us will go to the mat to defend the Fed against the many ideas that would damage the monetary policy independence of the Fed

the narrative, as it has developed, is that is true, and that is a question to you.

In June, a gay nightclub--what is supposed to be a safe place where the LGBT community can gather and be who they are--was targeted by violence and bigotry. That was 47 years ago in New York City. The Stonewall riots are considered the…

Sometime today or tomorrow, this House will hold a moment of silence for 50 massacred Floridians who had their bodies torn apart by a madman with a military-grade weapon. Silence--that is how the leadership of the most powerful country in…

I would like to start by thanking the chairman and the ranking member of the committee for the terrific, open, and bipartisan process that led to the adoption of this bill in committee, and urge my colleagues here in this room to support…

I would like to thank both the chairman of the committee and the ranking member for the opportunity to offer this amendment, which would be a very straightforward amendment, which simply requires the Department of Defense to report to the…

I don't think we can build an entire regulatory structure around a Madoff possibility.

those things have been linked to the recovery by my friends in the Republican Party.

this policy has worked.

let us be very, very careful about scaling back authorities that had everything while we were negligent to do with the recovery.

Since then, since 2009, the Congress has completely abdicated the role that economists across the political spectrum would say we should do, which is to continue with classic fiscal stimulus.

And you know what, we highlight the word 'innovative' around here, and we say we want them to be innovative.

With the exception of the American Recovery Act, which was profoundly controversial and partisan here, Congress has utterly and completely abnegated its role to conduct the kind of fiscal policy that classical economics and most economists…