On the recordMarch 7, 2012
I want to thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I don't know if I am going to use the whole thing, but this must be Bizarro Congress because I'm about to agree with the Chamber of Commerce. I've been listening to my colleagues on the other side claiming that they're with the President on this one. Something must be wrong. The Chamber of Commerce has raised the exact same issues that we're raising with this amendment. This amendment doesn't kill this bill. It simply says if you're going to give information to a handful of people, you have to file with the SEC and you have to stand by that information as being legitimate and honest information. That's really all it says. It says it in technical terms, but that's all it says. By the way, I guess I need to be clear. We don't necessarily agree with everything the chamber says, even on this amendment. They just raise the same issue. And I would like to be clear that no one has since stated it, but even the President himself would like to see some amendments to this bill. I presume some of them will be passed in the Senate; and hopefully when they are, people like me will be a lot more supportive when it comes back. I just thought it was important to point out I'm not with the chamber very often. When I am, I think that's worthy of note.
