But 30 years ago, you folks were created by Congress specifically to solve this problem, correct?

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is a great day, a great week for America. Here we are celebrating not only our great veterans, who have given us our freedom and our way of life, but also our great police officers, who…

If we are looking for research on veterans who have problems, and we have mountains of data on what their ailments are, it would make sense to me that we use that information.

Here is why this matters, Dr. Clancy, and everybody here. Is that we have a situation where there is an inherent conflict of interest...

Now, up in Maine, where I come from, that is a conflict of interest. And here is why that matters.

Yesterday, my fellow Mainers woke up to heartbreaking news: Corporal Eugene Cole, a deputy at Somerset County Sheriff's Office in Norridgewock, was shot and killed in the line of duty. This horrific act was the first killing of a police…

One of the biggest gifts we can give to our kids and grandkids is taking care of this spending and this debt problem so they are not saddled with a mountain-load of this stuff. America, today, Mr. Speaker, is watching. Who has got the…

The big career spenders here in the House and in the Senate who have only recently found fiscal discipline, well, today they have the chance to join me to vote for, vote ``yes'' for, a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. When I…

Who says that a terrific Representative from one of the most urban areas in the country, Los Angeles, California, cannot get together with a Representative from one of the most rural parts of America up in the great State of Maine? I thank…

I appreciate the gentleman yielding me the time, and I thank the chairman for moving this very important piece of legislation through our committee, the Financial Services Committee, and onto the floor. This is a commonsense bill, Mr…

I appreciate this opportunity very much. You notice, Mr. Speaker, those who do not live in the great State of Maine are very envious of those who do; so I take full advantage of the moose, bear, and other critters that we have in the State…

I thank the chairman very much for helping bring this very important bill to the floor. I also thank Chairman Rob Bishop from Utah, who also was very instrumental in bringing this bill to the floor. In addition to that, I thank all of the…

Now, this is a clear example of what we call the public trust doctrine. This common-law document, which we adopted from the British ancestors, gives public access to this land between high and low waterlines for the purpose of ``fishing…

Can you commit today, Mr. Powell, that you will do everything humanly possible within your purview to make sure that the regulatory burden for our small financial institutions are controlled and hopefully repealed?

I co-sponsored--the first bill I co-sponsored was a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution to finally force Washington to live within its means, stop balancing our books and start paying down the debt.

I thank the chairman for moving this very important package of bills through the Financial Services Committee and now to the floor. Madam Speaker, I want to congratulate a terrific Congressman from the State of Arkansas (Mr. Hill) for the…

I am really concerned about some of the folks on the other side of the aisle today saying something to this and I will paraphrase, I hope I get it right that they are concerned about any adjustments to Dodd-Frank when it comes to…

One of the roles of Government as I see it is to make sure that we create laws and rules are made such that our families are helped in such they live better lives with more opportunities and more freedom.

Downeast Maine, along the Canadian border, is one of the most stunningly beautiful parts of the world, but, sadly, it is also one of the poorest. During the past 30 years, Madam Speaker, most of our paper mills in Maine have closed because…

The two reasons why the economy is doing so well is the great work in repealing red tape and also the tax cuts that have been recently enacted.

Can we get a commitment from you, sir, that you will do everything humanly possible to help rural financial institutions?

I would like to salute Chellie Pingree, my cosponsor on this bill, H.R. 2504, for the great work that she has done and that we have done together. Mr. Speaker, I will tell you that the job of government is to help our families, to help our…

Can we agree that the best way to deal with this issue is to codify in legislation the reforms we need to the SIFI designation process?

It is a commonsense bill, Mr. Speaker, such that if a bank teller speaks to one of his or her customers they have known for maybe decades, and the senior says, ``I would like to close my account and wire the proceeds overseas,'' this bank…

I thank Mr. Tipton for managing the floor today on this important bill. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman of the Financial Services Committee, Mr. Hensarling, for moving this very important bill, H.R. 2255, through the committee and on to…