Political Quotes

I rise as a Ph.D. physicist in Congress, who spent most of his career in the national laboratories of the Department of Energy, to share the story of a research engineer at a national lab who was recently fired without cause by President…

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.

I have no further speakers, and I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Mr. Speaker, my draft number was 321. Being born in 1955, I never was called to serve, and I always wondered what my service would be like had I been called. I…

Since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors in 2011, it has served as the cop on the beat, protecting consumers from unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices.