I thank Ranking Member Waters for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 6392, the Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2016. Although many aspects of this bill have sound arguments behind them, it contains fatal flaws…

I have no further requests for time. I urge my colleagues to support this bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further requests for time, and I urge my colleagues to support this bill. I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge my colleagues to support this bill. I yield back the balance of my time.

this corporate malfeasance is exactly why we need a strong and independently funded CFPB.

I'm rather disappointed that instead of having a serious conversation about how to analyze and mitigate the effects of climate change, we are taking about subpoenas and legal arguments involving shareholder fraud investigations by states'…

This hearing, to my mind, is just another example of a rear action by a group of people who didn't accept the facts of climate change and are abusing their positions in the Majority to undertake hearings that will in fact end up being a…

There is no doubt that the fossil fuel industry is carrying on its books trillions of dollars of proven reserves and there is no doubt that the scientific reality of fossil fuel-induced climate change calls into question their ability to…

It's long past time that this Committee accepts the scientific facts of climate change like the vast majority of scientists have and take on the very serious work of figuring out where we go from here as a country and as an economy. This…

This bill would remove the requirement for private equity funds to submit certain information on Form PF to the FSOC; but that information is intended to capture funds that have built up leveraged and risky positions that pose a systemic…

How much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Illinois has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I thank my friend from Virginia (Mr. Hurt) for working with me on this bill. Mr. Speaker, the amendment that I am proposing addresses two of the concerns that have been most prominently expressed by Democrats and advocates, including the…

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 6, strike line 14 and all that follows through page 7, line 5. Page 7, strike line 18 and all…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I cosponsored this bill because private equity makes considerable investment in Illinois and, specifically, in my district. Nationwide, many businesses are backed by private equity and are a key driving…

the fact that the Senate is grossly unrepresentative of the actual population distribution of the States results in about $.5 trillion per year wealth transfer from the high-population States, which are underrepresented in the Senate, to…

So I think an issue is, how can we make sure that the people themselves are represented?

And so I think this is a fundamental reason--fundamental argument for diversity, that there are real distributional effects because of the intrinsic trade-offs that the Fed has to make.

Thank you for everything that the FDIC does to make banking safer.

I want to thank you for everything that you've proven capable of.

Does that increase or decrease the leverage that the West has that the moment that they break out they will be in violation with all this.

When I step back and look at this problem, I think of it sort of in two different levels.

I think at a minimum, you have to get rid of anonymous shell corporations in the United States.

I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan, and I also thank the entire Illinois delegation on both sides of the aisle for cosponsoring this legislation. On March 26, 2016, the State of Illinois and the city of Aurora lost a consummate public…

Thank you to the gentleman from California (Mr. Takano) and to my colleagues, the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. Esty) and the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Ben Ray Lujan) for helping to bring this amendment to the floor. This…

I offer an amendment on behalf of me and my colleague, Congressman Scott Garrett, who is my Republican co-chair of the Payer State Caucus, which is a group of Members opposed to the massive transfer of wealth between one set of States to…