Bill Posey

I apologize if I wasn't clear. This amendment does not stop companies from mentioning bona fide weather and environmental risks in their disclosures. If a company wants to weigh in on climate change, nothing in this amendment would prevent…

May I inquire as to how much time I have left. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida has 1 minute remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

My amendment would prohibit the Securities and Exchange Commission from using funds under this act to pursue a political agenda on climate change and, instead, return its focus to their three-part mission: to protect investors; maintain…

With regard to the new SEC and the old SEC, I have been here a little less than 8 years, but I heard the new SEC Secretary say, well, there is really nothing to worry about and that half of the 38 employees who were culpable in allowing…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 2, after line 13, insert the following new subsection: (b) Information Security Protocol.--An agency employee…

It is vital that the former Secretary of State's use of an unsecure email server does not send a message to other Federal employees that this is acceptable, that this manner of handling sensitive information and conducting government…

I believe everybody on both sides of the aisle on this committee most certainly wants clean air in the most honest, efficient way possible and transparent way possible.

That reasoning, frankly, is embarrassing. I hope it is to you, too, and a clear overreach by your staff and the EPA who is charged with rulemaking based on sound science.

If you take something that's not yours, that's called a theft.

I'm not an advocate for the mine, but I wonder if you feel it's appropriate for career EPA staff to discuss implications of upcoming presidential elections and how it might affect their scientific work.

You've never seen any of the testimony from the depositions that involved Mr. North before?

This frustration that I see all the time is the only time we are concerned about money is if it--when it really, truly benefits the public--

Sometimes I get to feeling that despite the great-sounding name--Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; it sounds really so wonderful--it is going to just be another government entity that will be used to punish political enemies and bully…

I like to think that you feel the way you said, which is why I was so disappointed with the Bureau's final no-action letter policy.

In my office I have kept the register for the last 5 years. It has become a little bit of a tourist spot for people to come in and have their pictures taken with the regulations that the Federal agencies--not elected people but unelected…

I just would like to remind everyone that the other side of the aisle had an opportunity to bring in whatever witnesses they desired to.

Maybe that's why they chose not to have somebody from EPA here.

Well, there's always going to be the omnipresent offenders of the nonexistent problems of the people.

if EPA succeeded in destroying this industry where people safely for the public and otherwise compete on private property, it would just be devastating

There is no reason to suppose that they would behave any differently in space, and I think that should give us concern.

In Florida, our Insurance Commissioner, Kevin McCarty, has a long, strong history of watching out for the consumer first and foremost.

I don't work for the United Nations, I don't work for the E.U., I don't work for any other government except for the United States of America.

I've heard a lot of criticism from different directions about this proposed legislation, but I've not heard one single person propose an actual solution to the problem.

Most people think Members of Congress make all the laws. In my office, four years ago we started collecting the daily register...