The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago serves my district and works to provide liquidity to member institutions to support the housing finance system.

There is no reason to believe volatility is going to decrease anytime soon.

It is unacceptable that the Chinese enjoy broad access to the United States while U.S. citizens' access to Tibet is highly restricted.

The regulatory pendulum has swung too far.

Rules and regulations are driving financial institutions to merge, exit entire lines of businesses.

I recognize it is possible to have a regulatory regime that protects the American people.

I do want to also give a shout-out to colleague from Maryland, Congressman Delaney, for his hard work on this legislation.

I know we are in agreement on the need to prevent bailouts of our Nation's financial institutions from ever happening again.

However, the Fed has implemented some controversial policies that I am concerned may have some unintended consequences that, in fact, could increase systemic risk.

My amendment encourages manufacturing innovation in the United States by requiring Federal agencies to give a high priority to the SBIR and STTR programs to small businesses engaged in manufacturing R&D.

Manufacturing facilities employ more than 27,000 workers across the 14th congressional District of Illinois, which I represent.