Tom Feeney

When Sarbanes-Oxley was passed, America had roughly 48 percent of the world capital market formation. We're down to about 39 percent. Mr. Chairman, I ask you, because you're a good friend and you're smart about this stuff, at what point…

I will tell you this, before Sarbanes-Oxley, foreign initial public offerings raised 90 cents of every new dollar in America. Now 90 cents of new dollar raised by international public offerings is raised overseas. We are outsourcing…

I would ask him: Is it true or is it not true that America's market share of capital formation and capital control has declined since Sarbanes-Oxley has been enacted?

I'm very grateful. This is very important. As Congressman King just told you, we have a problem on our border most Congressmen and few Americans know about. I'm a skeptical guy, even when a good patriot and friend of mine like Steve King…

Mr. Chairman, I never thought I would say that I really miss the grand old days of the liberal tax-and-spend party, because the great liberals in our Nation's recent history were never ashamed about being honest with the American people…

again I want to thank my colleagues for their support for the great history of the Mercury 13. I should say since that Mercury 13 program, there have been 34 women that have flown aboard the space shuttle, including four who made the…

Will the gentleman show me in my amendment where we refer to the voucher program? I would express to him our intent clearly is not to participate in the voucher. This is a new program.

The truth of the matter is, government only gets money one of three ways. It either prints money, and there's nothing in this bill that tells the Treasury Department or the Mint to print any money. It borrows money, as in Treasury bonds…

Now we're back on the voucher program that the chairman has a problem with. But I still suggest that the voucher program is better than putting it back.

Mr. Chairman, before I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey to respond, I would say that, as has been pointed out earlier, this Congress has already provided some $3 billion in housing relief, and I have an amendment coming up that would…

this motion to recommit clarifies that this nonbinding vote is in fact nonbinding: no court may consider the board's refusal to follow the shareholders' advisory vote as a breach of that board's duties of care or loyalty to the…

I find almost a surreal debate going on with my friends on the left side of the House saying to us don't you like democracy. We have got soldiers fighting for democracy throughout the world, while we are saying to our friends on the left…

first I want to thank the genuine American hero from Texas, Mr. Johnson, for leading us this afternoon. I supported the use of military force to remove Saddam Hussein's regime because it was in America's interests. Afterwards, it should…

my guess is about 80 percent of them are either payers of the income tax, the Medicare tax, the Social Security tax, or some Federal tax. And with respect to American Samoa, I admire them. I actually think that they are fortunate. I am…

I was one of the outspoken critics, even of Republican earmarks like the Bridge to Nowhere. But I have to tell you, you have got to give credit where credit is due, when they will stand up and say, we are not going to have earmarks. I…

recently President Bush wrote that now is not the time to increase taxes on the American people. As the stock market hits an all-time high, employment is at an all-time high, unemployment is at a record low. Unfortunately, the first couple…

I would say to my friend, Mr. King, yesterday in the bill there was a discriminatory provision that favored or discriminated for or against some territories or States as opposed to others in the minimum wage bill. Is there anything that…

Is it theoretically conceivable if yesterday's minimum wage exemption for American Samoa becomes law and today's bill passes that people that make less than the minimum wage in American Samoa will be doing with Federal funds embryonic stem…

It was intended to put 100,000 officers on the street. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The time is controlled by the gentleman from New York.

Will the gentleman yield? He asked a question. Will he yield for a second? The COPS program has been completed.

I rise to thank Chairman Boehlert and Chairman Calvert and the respective ranking and minority Members. We will recall in the aftermath of the Columbia accident, many of us on Capitol Hill and the space community observed the drift…

I am very grateful today for the leadership of the gentleman from New York (Chairman Boehlert) for the advancement of science in general and space science in particular. I am grateful that the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert), our…

I rise to support the rule. I will tell my colleagues that over the last 8 months, we have had between 12 and 13 hearings in the Committee on the Judiciary and some 35 witnesses over an extended period of time; and 50 members of the…

there are two things that we can say conclusively since the enactment of the PATRIOT Act. Number one, there has not been another 9/11 attack, thanks in part to the PATRIOT Act and other tools that we have given the law enforcement…

in rollcall vote 239 held today on H.J. Res. 27 I was recorded as ``yea.'' This incorrectly represents my view on this resolution. I intended for my vote to be recorded as ``no.'' I have long been a supporter of free trade, and though I…