Jim Himes

Congressman Himes of Connecticut sponsored legislation to raise the bank shareholder threshold for SEC registration from $500 to $2,000.

I am just wondering, does Dodd-Frank, in fact, impose regulatory burdens on nonfinancial companies, small company?

I appreciate your testimony, Mr. Molinari. Something caught my eye, though.

I think that is the most common way that we are going to see crowdfunding happen.

This seems to me to do away with that relationship, which is both about information and data, but also about just sizing up the individual and that individual's character.

I think the core of my concerns with crowdfunding is that the underwriting process... is essentially a process of getting to know somebody.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me thank the panel for your very, very helpful and useful testimony.

Let us not think about this like motor vehicle safety and speed limits... because when they happen, they are almost unthinkably catastrophic.

Since Glass-Steagall was weakened and a variety of our financial services regulations were lightened... we saw emerging market crises.

I have been uncomfortable sitting here listening to a traditional way of evaluating cost-benefit analysis.

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 414, line 4, strike ``and''. Page 414, line 20, strike the period and insert ``; and''. Page 414…

This country has long had a history of the examination of the safety and soundness of our banks. And what we are saying now is that we will assist and support the safety and soundness of our banks by keeping the customers of those banks…

In a more complicated and sophisticated financial world, the SEC must be faster. It must be more efficient. It must hire people who really understand the markets. It must be more robust, and it should be held accountable. One thing it…

The average investor, the mom and pop, the widows and orphans funds, they're not necessarily financially sophisticated. They need somebody looking over the shoulder of those that are selling them stock, selling them bonds. The…

If you look at when these regulatory bodies were established in the 1930s and you look at the volatility and the growth that happened in the next 60 years, volatility was way down and growth was way up, and the American middle class took…

I hope that the panel today will address them and give us some guidance on how we can best secure our public policy goals without taking on the risks that were incurred in the 1990s.

I am just curious about what the effect is on the availability of the 30-year fix, which, let's face it, it is mom, apple pie, and core to American families.

We are, I think, developing a consensus in this Chamber that we need to address it in a serious way.

The new Republican majority has decided that today we will read the United States Constitution, which I guess is a good thing. But like every other American, I can and do read it for myself. In fact, I did it this morning and came across…

Imagine you wake up one morning to discover that the U.S. Government will be sending you under duress to Guatemala or Mexico or the Ukraine. You don't speak the language; you have never visited. These places are as foreign as foreign can…

My understanding is also that, consistent with the overall intent not to subject commercial firms to financial regulation, section 604 provides that an existing savings and loan holding company with both financial and nonfinancial…

I thank the gentleman for bringing the discussion back to its proper topic of the honoring that this House and that the people of America can do for our veterans. I thank the gentleman for that, and would like to note to this gentleman…

I rise with a certain amount of outrage tonight because we are debating a resolution that, just to remind this House, expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that all people of the United States should participate in a moment…

To me, this is a question really of intelligent regulation, which is driven in my way of thinking by a couple of principles.

Madam Secretary, I am interested in your views on the TSA-prohibited items list and the methodology used to determine what is prohibited.