Bruce Poliquin

When are we going to have a serious conversation with the kids in this country, 25- and 30-year-old folks to say, if you want these programs that are growing a lot faster than our tax revenues, we need to make some changes?

They talk about it, but all they want is bigger government, more spending, and more debt, which results in higher taxes.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 45, line 8, insert ``(which may not be required to be for a period longer than one year)'' after…

In addition to that, Machias Savings Bank may have known your family for 50 years. Now, on top of this, Mr. Speaker, the bank takes all the risk. They own the load. So, God forbid, if a storm comes up and sinks your traps and your boat in…

I think when it comes to--with all due respect--the mission of the SEC, that I know you are responsible for upholding, it makes a lot of sense to make sure that our investors have the option of receiving their paper financial reports…

So it is my contention that when you have a trucker in Bangor, Maine, or a teacher in Lewiston, Maine, in the greatest district, in the greatest State in the country, and they are doing their best to put aside $50 or $100 a month to make…

We are spending about $300,000 for one-bedroom apartments in Maine when the average price of a single-family home... was half that price.

Now, where is the compassion? We are in the business of helping people?

We need to stretch every dollar as thin as we can because it is a limited resource and we are fiduciaries of taxpayer money.

We are $18 trillion in debt as a nation: $18 trillion.

We need to make sure that those who are unable to help themselves or those who need a hand up, that we help them.

It is my opinion as a Member of Congress that there are a handful of really important things that we do in the Federal Government, one of which is to protect our country and protect our citizens.

Dodd-Frank is one of those problems.

Every family in America is now paying about $15,000 per year for these Federal-only regulations.

Please, Bruce, help us get the government off our back.

The cost of regulations to the American economy is about $1.7 trillion per year.

Let's face it, Social Security is a $15 trillion unfunded defined benefit pension plan.

I would make a case to you, Dr. Chakravorti, that our sovereign States here, which are required to balance their books every year, are a much safer bet than some of the debt accrued around here in Washington.

I disagree with that, and I bet you do, too.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ___. None of the funds made…

I know that Dodd-Frank is a smothering regulation that is reducing the available credit among lots of players in your space.

We have to--as a country, I believe, stay on offense when it comes to a lot of these issues.

This is an organization, a regulator that has tentacles throughout our economy into all of our families' homes, all of our small businesses.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate it very much. Although I do believe, sir, that jobs are more important than counting people, we will use the full authority of our office to help our workers at the Madison Mill to make sure that we do…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 3, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $44,000,000)''. Page 6, line 20, after the dollar amount…