It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Schneider), my colleague.

I, once again, thank Chairman Garrett, chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, for his support and leadership on this bill. I particularly thank my cosponsors on this bill: Mr. Womack, with whom I have worked before; Mrs. Wagner…

I would like to just close by thanking you for our partnership and our work on this bill. I hope we can do more of the same. I thank Mrs. Wagner and Mr. Delaney, cosponsors of this bill, and Chairman Garrett for pushing this through. As we…

I believe that a concern with our debt is prudent.

When that concern becomes ideology blind to all facts and economic advice and reality, it is something different than prudence.

I would like to thank my friend from Massachusetts for the time and Ranking Member Waters for being willing to hear different perspectives on this bill from our side. I want to start by saying that Dodd-Frank, which I think I can say I…

We exempted venture capital funds from the Advisers Act of 1940 registration. The same set of investors, same types of investing. Actually, a more risky asset class than private equity. We exempted them for no other reason than that we…

Now that the notorious problems with the ACA Web site healthcare.gov appear to be largely behind us, it is important that we cut through the partisan noise and look at some facts. One fact is that in 2 days--Sunday and Monday alone--almost…

Since this Congress convened, it has done nothing to help create jobs. In fact, through ill-advised and overenthusiastic cutting, the sequester, the shutdown, the threat to our full faith and credit, this Congress has destroyed jobs. Mr…

I thank Mr. Engel for yielding. I would like to thank the chairman and the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee for the bipartisanship with which they led this bill and which I think we will accomplish some very good things…

I completely agree. I don't think anybody up here disagrees, that over time we want to move to an actuarially-sound system.

I think it is a tribute to us as Americans that when Americans are suffering anywhere, we don't act stingy.

I think most of us agree that the goal here is to find a well-balanced insurance structure that steps in where the private market fears to tread for as long as that holds true.

The first is the very simple financial concept that risk should be managed and ultimately borne by the party that is in the best position to understand that risk.

I want to thank Mr. Scott for yielding the time. Mr. Speaker, derivatives are complicated things. They are probably one of the more complicated things that we deal with in this Chamber, so it is worth describing in simple terms what H.R…

What has changed is that we no longer do the hard work of finding finely balanced regulation like we do in water or in air. In financial services--in Dodd-Frank today--we have a morality play: either you repeal Dodd-Frank in its entirety…

Do you think Congress has done all it could in the last 3 years or so?

That kind of language and that kind of tone is beneath the dignity of this institution and earns us our single digit approval ratings, and it is violative of any standard of gentlemanliness that anybody sitting back here should presume to…

In your agency, you are closely constrained by law and regulation that Congress has imposed.

I have been doing this for about 5 years, sitting in on this committee, and I don't think I have ever been quite as embarrassed as I am today by the tone and the substance of this hearing or by the way that you have been personally treated.

once again, I sit down and listen to the majority talk so piously about the need for fiscal responsibility

Thank you very much for holding this hearing here in Bridgeport.

I'm happy you're holding this hearing, because this is the second time in 6 months that my constituents in the Fourth District of Connecticut and your constituents, Senator, have had both their safety and their economic well-being put at…

I rise on this 15th day of the government shutdown, a shutdown which has put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work, that will have untold damage on what is already a hesitant economic recovery; and I rise as we contemplate the…

When Senator Cruz took to the Senate floor for 21 hours to explain to the American public why the Congress had to shut down the government and breach the debt ceiling in order to repeal the Affordable Care Act, I listened carefully. One of…