Mike Capuano

I actually like PHMSA. I like, when you do stuff, you seem to do it pretty well.

It is unequivocally directed to your superiors who do have the authority to say no, and should have said no to this policy.

Somebody somewhere at DHS and ICE, at some point, is going to have to ask themselves, when is it too much? When are the orders too much? I can't do them.

Elliot Richardson quit. When the President of the United States ordered him to take action he found to be immoral, he quit his job.

I don't know, but I am just guessing that if that was somebody else that he didn't like that the President would say that person was lying, and has been lying for day, after day, after day.

I am just curious, because it strikes me, if the President says for day, after day, after day on T.V. that he doesn't have the authority and then now he does.

I don't remember being taught by any of the Jesuits it was OK to separate parents from children.

What is difficult for me to understand is the obsession on just one border, and the obsession on only one fix to the issue there.

Do you believe that discrimination exists in America today?

I do believe discrimination exists. I do believe economic disparity is growing.

I really think you need to get out a little bit more, Mr. Otting.

I am also very concerned regarding reports that the OCC has found that more banks open accounts without the consent of their customers.

I am all for due process. What I am not for--Is taking people's protections away.

I get that. Then why don't we have a bill just to stop New York State from doing this and leave the other 49 to do it? Leave Alabama alone.

The concept of taking protections away from small investors just strikes me as anathema.

Unfortunately, H.R. 5037, seems to be aimed directly at the Martin Act, and by preempting these State laws, the bill would allow small-time fraud to run rampant.

Do you believe that homeownership is probably the most firm and sound and most used way for relatively poor or moderately poor working class people to move into the middle class?

I am particularly opposed to this bill because in New York State, we have a powerful securities fraud law, called the Martin Act.

I believe that fraud is fraud, and that States should be free to regulate any form of securities fraud that they see fit.

Mr. Chairman, we know exactly how to end a person's homelessness: You provide her with a home.

I don't think there is any division, any problems talking about homelessness both in rural and urban areas.

I introduced H.R. 2076, a $13.2 billion bill, the Ending Homelessness Act, which provides a surge of new resources.

I think that all of the rail carriers want to do the right thing and have been doing the right thing for hundreds of years.

I am looking forward to it as well.

There is no better example of the Chinese system in the United States.