Bill Foster: “Every year, the citizens of Illinois write a check for approximately $40 billion to States largely in the Sun Belt and…”

If you conclude, as you are actively studying it, that you need more visibility into certain areas of, particularly nonbank things that may be parts of the chain of contagion, please let us know, because it is our job to avoid the next…

This made the discharge petition much more effective at its intended purpose, which is sort of to operate as a safety valve against, you know, the Speaker's rather dictatorial power.

If you made it anonymous, you would allow Members to sort of probe support for centrist legislation.

I think it is my personal goal to die before we have another financial crisis, and then I will be doing my job well.