Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S. Res. 407) was agreed to. The preamble was agreed to. The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows: S. Res. 407 Whereas on October 31, 2011, MF Global Holdings, Ltd., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York after reporting that as much as $900,000,000 in customer money had gone missing; Whereas MF Global Holdings, Ltd. is the parent company of MF Global, Inc., formerly a futures commission merchant and broker-dealer for thousands of commodities and securities customers; Whereas following the bankruptcy filing, Judge Louis Freeh, the court-appointed trustee for the liquidation of MF Global Holdings, retained certain employees of the MF Global entities at the time of the bankruptcy, including the chief operating officer, the chief financial officer, the general counsel, and other individuals, in order to assist the liquidation process; Whereas on March 8, 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported that Mr.…”