There is no such thing as privately-funded affordable housing, period.

I guess I need to ask, you do realize that housing costs are different across the country.

2 years ago today, one of the most cowardly acts in American history was perpetrated on the people of Boston, of Massachusetts, of America, and, in fact, of the world when two lowly cowards blew up two bombs in the middle of the Boston…

I think this is an important hearing and I think this is an important subject, but I think it is a very delicate subject.

I have never seen more Members attend a hearing and stay as long as they have to ask questions.

I agree with everything you just said, except the phrase, 'Central Valley.' Just change that to 'New England.'

I am not trying to kill the railroads. Railroads are important to this country.

We need to be able to transport goods. But we need to be able to do it in a safe manner.

It is just unacceptable.

We have no further speakers on this bill. I would like to add my voice to supporting this bill as well. I will tell you unequivocally, my definition of rural is whatever Andy Barr and Ruben Hinojosa say it is. 11,591 people in a county? I…

I would just like to add my voice to those who support this bill, another commonsense bill that hopefully won't take us three more Congresses to get our friends on the other side to actually take action on something that is relatively…

We have no further speakers. I would just like to add my voice in support of this bill. It is a very commonsense bill, and I am proud to be able to support it. I yield back the balance of my time.

On most social issues, I consider myself a liberal. On most fiscal matters, I consider myself a conservative in the true sense of the word, not the new sense of the word, meaning that you should pay for those things that you want. When it…

The aviation industry has other problems. They can't seem to be getting all the things that we all want actually in place.

There is something wrong. And I am not sure, as one Member, whether it is both agencies have become captive to the industry.

I think you have heard a lot of the frustration.

We have got the NTSB that has been calling for various regulations forever.

What kind of a process is this? And how do I make it better?

If you actually do believe that shareholders own the corporation, you should be pushing harder for the shareholders.

If you own this company, why do you not have those rights? And why does the SEC not stand with the owners?

I judge people on what they do, not on what they say.

People who own something should have some say on what the thing that they own does.

Most of my constituents... don't really think that the SEC has ever... stood with them.

And I know from my personal work on that bill with Congressman Frank that we tried at every turn to try to make a distinction between the regulation against the big banks that caused the problem and the community banks who did not cause…

Happy St. Patrick's Day.