I get a lot more comfortable on this stuff, on these ideas, if the investors who are purchasing these securities understand that they are purchasing a slightly different category of securities than everything else.

I am an original cosponsor of the legislation that we are here to talk about, so I am very excited about it.

Look, we get things done in this committee, and we do get things done in this committee because we are factual and we leave ideology behind.

I thank the ranking member. Mr. Chairman, I rise this afternoon, as I frequently do in this Chamber, a little incredulous at what it is that I'm hearing. I'm hearing stories about east Texas. I'm hearing about lattes, and I'm hearing that…

25 million people dead around the world, 14 million orphaned children on the continent of Africa alone. This is part of the toll that the human race has borne since the terrible scourge of HIV/AIDS began its deadly work a generation ago…

Under pressure from the American people, the Republican majority in this House is running around with 15 or 20 bills that they claim to be jobs bills which, of course, they are not. If you look at them, you will see that they are bills…

I rise this morning to address the persuasive and life-threatening challenges posed by domestic violence. Mr. Speaker, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, as many as one in four women over the course of her…

On Friday, November 4, 2011, I was unable to be present for rollcall vote 831 on H.R. 3321. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

If we've learned one thing in the last 5 years, it is that the body of financial regulation which keeps us, as a people, safe must not be static, must not be dead, but, rather, a living thing that evolves and changes, not just to make sure…

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

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2 days ago the United States Senate, the Republicans in the United States Senate, unanimously decided to not bring for consideration the jobs bill. I don't understand the workings of the United States Senate, and I don't understand the…

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

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.

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

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

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.

Last night the Republican majority in this House, without the support of a single Democrat, did something very dangerous--and I am not talking about the pernicious cuts that would damage the least fortunate in our society. I am not talking…

I'm told that this afternoon this House will vote on the Boehner default prevention bill, in direct contravention of House rules, with limited debate and no opportunity for amendment. One of the most important discussions we need to have…

I was moved to come to the floor to argue in opposition to this amendment and in opposition to the underlying legislation. I was moved because the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma and the amendment offered by the gentleman…

Yesterday, I stood on this floor with 3 weeks to go before August 2, the debt ceiling, to make the argument that we should abide by the commitments that we have made in the past. Today, I heard Chairman Bernanke of the Federal Reserve say…