We are obviously here for political reasons.

Since March 2009, shortly after the President took office, the stock market alone has restored $7.2 trillion in household wealth to U.S. investors.

How have investors in this country fared over the Obama Administration?

Sovereign states, regardless of how we feel about their activities or motivations, are entitled to protection under sovereign immunity and to due process.

I have watched as the Republican Majority has seized each and every opportunity to remove and erode every protection that is there in the law for our investors.

Centuries of experience with bubbles and crashes have shown us the need for smart regulation--how important that is to well-functioning markets.

Like so many of us, I am back from 10 days in my district and the constant question of: Why can't Congress come together to get some things done? I was thinking about that because the Republican majority says we passed the Violence Against…

Please help pass The farm bill. You must protect the best interest of consumers and farmers and not Special Interest and Lobbyist.

Rep. James Himes, Please help maintain the integrity of foods as it was intended.

I have watched saddened as this House led by the Republican majority has fought to gut those things that made and that will make this country great. I'm reading a history of the U.S. House of Representatives right now, and early in that…

In closing, let me again reiterate my thanks to Chairman Bachus and to all of the members of the Financial Services Committee who worked hard on this bill. I think we've had a lot of good debate around very real and important issues…

As I reflect on where this country has been in the last 10 years, I see two wars fought at the cost of thousands of lives and $2 to $3 trillion; tax cuts during a time of war--something unprecedented in this country's history--and now…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. I thank my friend, Mr. Schweikert, with whom I've enjoyed working on this legislation and in a spirit of bipartisanship; ultimately a bill that was designed to make it easier for small banks…

I now yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I am thrilled to be participating in the management of this debate today and want to start by thanking Chairman Bachus and thanking my friends on the other side of the aisle for…

And thank my friend from Tennessee for his hard work on this bill of which, as I said in my previous statement, I'm very supportive. I do want to take the opportunity, though, having heard from the gentleman from Tennessee phrases that we…

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 2, line 11, strike ``$1,000,000,000'' and insert ``$750,000,000''. Page 2, line 18, strike…

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. 4 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas The…

This piece of paper will never be the same. No matter how much you try, you can't remove the marks that are left behind. The paper may not have ripped, but once the damage is done, the scars remain. I saw this idea on the Web site of a new…

We therefore appreciate this subcommittee's consideration of legislation that would clarify the territorial scope of U.S. law.

Proposals such as the Himes-Garrett bill will increase certainty for market participants and resolve inevitable conflicts that would result from overlapping regulations in foreign jurisdictions.

I think the Himes-Garrett legislation here is the right approach. It brings much needed balance back into the process.

Thank you for holding this hearing and for the comity with which we have worked together on this legislation.

I rise this morning to offer my support for the STOCK Act, a bill that would make it illegal for Members of Congress to trade securities on inside information, a restriction that applies to pretty much everybody else. I'm a proud cosponsor…

In 9 hours the President will stand on this podium behind me to deliver the State of the Union address. I remember the first time he did that. I sat in this Chamber as one of our colleagues called the new President a liar. And that was not…

I am really hopeful we are going to get something done here in good bipartisan fashion.