I strongly believe that we need to secure our borders, we need to fix our broken immigration laws...

I think with the CFPA, we have an opportunity to finally put those protections in place.

So, contrary to all our hopes and expectations, the Administration essentially has handed the issue back to Congress.

Congress has not had an appetite for passing usury caps.

I want to see what other things we can do in the interim period to help consumers.

I want to make it clear for the record, you know, that we are friends, we are allies, that we work together.

I am very pleased that we will hear testimony today from Judge Carnes, representing the Judicial Conference of the United States, and from Julie Stewart, the founder and president of Families Against Mandatory Minimum Sentences.

I supported, along with the chairman, the TARP money, primarily to unfreeze our credit markets and get capital flowing on Main Street.

You can imagine the challenge that I had.

You ought to take this solution and put it into software so it fits into a cell phone or fits into a PDA.

Gee whiz, I don't like this. I don't even put my cell phone or PDA or Blackberry on my belt and don't care to do that, and my wife wouldn't put--doesn't have a belt when she wears any particular outfit, so this is not handy, easy to use.

I think that dialogue is always very, very fruitful.

You are always welcome here, and you always have our ear.

However, we must also consider expanding the scope of this idea to assist our local businesses and nonprofits.

When I am in different places, when I am traveling from my home district to my office here, I am on the move. I have to remember to bring all of the equipment, all of the chargers, all of the car chargers.

Maxine and I worked very closely in the past, and we will work on this one together.

I only say that I and many others are a product of minority owned radio stations.

I am going to take this opportunity to tell you that Congresswoman Maxine Waters and I and others... to sit down and to talk specifically about the financial situation that broadcasters and the owners of radio stations.

The taxpayer wants his money back. Washington led him to believe that he would get his money back.

We might want to treat them at least with some modicum of respect for their answers.

We are the socialists. The socialists bail out the capitalists.

I would like to put a floor on payday lending, a national one, so that at least we have some minimum standard.

I was here, I think it was in 1994, when we passed legislation to deal with mortgages to make it clearer to people.

It should come as no surprise then that senior Puerto Rican Members of Congress, to wit: The Chair of the Hispanic Caucus and Chairwoman of the Small Business Committee Nydia Velazquez and Congressman Luis Gutierrez from Chicago do not…

I think that's an area that we want to make sure, as we look--both Mr. Hinojosa and yourself are looking at what the exchange rate--but it used to be sometimes 2 or 3 times higher.