Ed Whitfield: “Our economy crumbled because Wall Street took high-risk investments and transformed them into safe-looking bonds.”

We all have a great deal of respect for the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis) and know that he focuses on these particular issues and is quite familiar with them. The reason that we are opposing this amendment is that his amendment would…

So many critics say that that flexibility argument--we're giving maximum flexibility to the State--is really a red herring.

I would like to inquire how much time is remaining on both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky has 4\3/4\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Illinois has 4 minutes remaining.

These new technologies and life-saving medical treatments are critical to develop and deploy at a timely pace.