James A. Leach: “This bill was written exclusively by the chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services. No outside…”

let me say I may consider the Lantos-Shays alternative imperfect, but it represents a credible political balancing and is clearly preferable to the underlying bill. But listening to the debate over the past 2 days, I sense a lack of…

The FDIC will regulate the depository institution but it cannot regulate the holding company. And what the Federal Reserve would do is regulate the holding company and would leave the FDIC as the primary regulator of the institution as it…

I am honored to yield to the distinguished chairman of the Middle East Subcommittee, the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen), for such time as she may consume.

Mr. Speaker, briefly, in conclusion, let me just stress that the circumstances in North Korea have provoked one of the great humanitarian tragedies of our time. It is understandable that there are so many refugees, understandable that so…