Bruce Poliquin

An important first step and the beginning of a longer-term process among industry, local stakeholders, and Federal agencies that can revitalize this critical pillar of our economy.

We are all trying to get this right, because we have a lot of veterans who are in pain.

It's clear to me and I think everybody in this room that the VA, and God bless them, they are doing a horrible job when it comes to this issue.

Do you think if we are able to balance our books, ma'am, and start paying down our debt, that would help our economy grow?

So can't we agree, Chair Yellen, that this overregulation that we have seen in this economy for the past 7 or 8 years has been stifling growth and opportunity?

I happen to think, Chair Yellen, that we ought to do everything we can to grow this economy because that is just not fair and it is not right.

You should have been trying to do the right thing, Mr. Stumpf, during these 13 settlements, fines, call them what you want, over 6 years totaling $11 billion.

What do you tell a family who is looking to add their fourth child to their family and they need to put a put a new bathroom in their house in Ellsworth, Maine, and they can't get a loan because of the regulations?

I will not support in any way, shape, or form any kind of bailout using taxpayer money for Wells Fargo.

I ask all of my colleagues here in the House, Republicans and Democrats, to stand with me, and to stand with our fellow Americans, and to stand with freedom-loving people throughout the world against terrorism. I ask, please, that everyone…

When I was the State treasurer up in Maine, I came from the private sector and we were trying to do things quite differently to save as much money as we could for our taxpayers.

The reason it was withdrawn... is because there were so many of us that made such a stink that it is a bad idea to tax college savings plans

Why wouldn't you continue to withhold those payments until they stopped sponsoring terrorism? Why wouldn't you do that?

You will stand up against any attempt to tax retirement savings.

Last year your Administration... floated a horrible idea, which was to tax college savings plans. Do you agree that was a very bad idea?

Do you also agree that untraceable cash is the currency of terrorism?

This is a state sponsor of terrorism that received $1.7 billion of cash on a pallet in Tehran.

Cash is the currency of terrorism.

And they vowed to kill as many Americans as they can and they have blood on their hands right now.

Let's step back for a minute. We have a government that is--has vowed to wipe our major ally in the Middle East--really the only one that we trust, I think--Israel, off the face of the earth.

When regulations go up, costs go up. When costs go up, choice goes down.

It is so important to make sure that we have a government that helps these institutions and not hurts them.

Over 90 percent of the comments submitted to the SEC on this issue conclude that investors do, in fact, want to retain their paper financial reports. Mr. Chairman, I ask Chairman Crenshaw today, please, for his support to ensure that a…

I have introduced legislation such that no president, this president or any other president, is able to sidestep the legislative process, the people's representatives, and designate national monuments without the approval of the state…

If, in fact, a Federal Government that has a $19 trillion debt and a $12 billion backlog in the National Park Service to maintain the existing parks and monuments cannot fully fund the build-out and the maintenance of this national…