Bill Huizenga

Do you agree with Mr. Dudley's assessment?

I think this is the glide path and the direction that we need to go.

Do you believe it would make sense for one regulator to take the lead to interpret that guidance?

I am just confused as to why my colleagues on the other side of the aisle refuse to hold the Bank's feet to the fire because we have known about these issues for several years. Task forces haven't been sufficient; rhetoric hasn't been…

I appreciate the opportunity to address the amendment and the work of Mr. Sherman, Mrs. Maloney, the ranking member, and, obviously, our chairman as well. So I do agree and accept this amendment as a friendly amendment. It does confirm…

Information is the gold--personal information is the gold of the modern era, as I always say.

This is a significant, significant issue, and this is one of the few tools that we know has worked in the past.

I said to myself, 'I didn't know there wasn't an asset that wasn't frozen already.'

Whatever the title and label might be, let's get some of these things done that have broad, wide consensus, and not be political about it.

I am pleased to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson), a member of the Financial Services Committee.

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the sponsor of this very important legislation.

As the Chairman had indicated, I Chair the Capital Markets, Securities, and Investments Subcommittee, where the Securities and Exchange Commission falls under that purview.

I applaud you for that. Well, let's work together, sir, to reverse the negative trend of declining IPOs.

We need to ensure that Mr. and Mrs. 401(k), as you call our Main Street investors, are able to invest in a better future.

This designated mission may be important, and as Mary Jo White had said, important, but not the focus of the SEC.

Good news, I discovered what a wooden lunch hut is. Keep the wooden lunch hut. Cancel the damn spiral staircase.

I, and many others on this committee, have expressed real concern about the decline in the number of companies seeking to go public in the last number of years.

I really appreciate you coming here and being in front of this committee.

Not everybody agrees that we ought to be withdrawing from the Korean Peninsula. Someday if we--yes.

I had three committees this morning, I am sorry. I am co-sponsor of that and it will help with the end of the practice of groups suing the Federal Government as a business plan.

I encourage you to review their recommendations and incorporate them in future legislation as you continue your work on this very important issue.

We support efforts such as the Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act (H.R. 3131) by Representative Huizenga to bring more equity into the litigation process.

In times of tight fiscal budgets and escalating national debt, taxpayer dollars should be prioritized for the protection and recovery of species, not warrantless litigation.

My statement today is in support of common-sense legislation that makes the Endangered Species Act consistent with current law.

Thank you Chairman Bishop, Ranking Member Grijalva, and members of the Committee for holding this hearing on much needed reforms to the Endangered Species Act.