Political Quotes

Any additional changes to Dodd-Frank's derivatives rules needs to satisfy, in my opinion, a high burden of proof for me to support rolling back rules on the derivatives market just because they are inconvenient for some institutions.

I would ask, is the Fed interested in all, would you be interested in pursuing something--you oversee 7,000 entities, some of them large, some of them small, most of them pretty large.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, again, this is a relatively easy bill and a bipartisan bill. It simply requires that the FRA train people when they report incidents of safety, that they report them in a…

I think it is important for us all to understand that we are talking about something that has a huge benefit to those of us that live in rural populations and, again, benefits the urban centers so they can get across those rural areas.