I am hoping and wondering--have you spoken to either your attorneys or your insurers as to what will happen come January of next year if you have done what you are supposed to do on your track, and somebody else wants to run a train that…

If I were advising you as an attorney, I would say you are nuts to stick your neck out on the line when you have done the right thing and somebody else hasn't.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute votes on: Passage of the…

My amendment simply requires a company to have a policy in place to claw back executives' incentive-based pay if it is materially noncompliant with financial reporting requirements. Now, those words matter because the words ``materially…

Mr. Chairman, I did, but you just expressed them all perfectly, and I would simply associate myself with every word you just said.

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.

Despite the fact that the Financial Services Committee has clear jurisdiction over these matters, the Secretary seems to think that referring us to other committees is a satisfactory answer to our questions. It is not.

The Trump Administration has now missed several deadlines related to those sanctions, which is unacceptable.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, this is one of those mundane issues that 95 percent of America doesn't understand. I didn't understand much about it a while back because I don't have any proxy advisers. I do…

Let's figure out who are the worst of the worst of the people who hire these people. Well, it turns out the Dominican Sisters hire a proxy adviser. Oh, they are put together for the very purpose of ripping the heart out of corporate…

They use proxy advisers. Let me see. Who wants this bill? Every corporation in America. Why? They don't want you knowing what they are doing. Let's see. Whose side am I on? I think if I have a choice between being on the side of the…

the continuation of our addiction crisis and a vibrant Appalachian economy cannot coexist.

a vision without funding is a hallucination.

I have no further speakers. Again, I would like to repeat what has already been said: this is a classic example of how this place is supposed to work. It takes a little time, but it works out in a bipartisan manner and in a thoughtful…

I stand ready to assist the members of your subcommittee and you in any way as we work together to find solutions to this crisis.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am a former tax lawyer. My wife is a practicing CPA. We have heard this before: simplification is going to help. It has never put a single accountant out of business, and it won't do it now. It is…

As a final insult, the corporate tax you have encourages businesses to send jobs offshore by not taxing profits made offshore when they expand jobs, if they do. They will do it offshore, not here in America.

I don't even know if I need 2 minutes. Look, this bill has some good things in it. Everybody admits that. It does. Like every bill I have ever voted on, there is some good, there is some bad. But this bill has more bad in it than good. It…

We haven't had it since the 1930's. Prior to the 1930's, it was a fully private market.

For the amount of money I can get for a home in Boston, I can get the greatest home in the world in Waco, Texas.

For me, and most homeowners, it is how much do I make every month and how much can I afford every month.

I was in my office doing very important work until I decided to come over and have some fun.

It just means if we are going to make national policy it has to be adjusted to regional cost.

We have done the purely private market before, it didn't work. We are not going back. Period.

I dare you to put it on the floor of the House for a vote. It would be a wonderful debate.