the five agencies responsible for regulation of the Volcker Rule coming together on this notice is an important first step.

China has a very large chunk of our debt. It's somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.2 trillion.

I appreciate that. I, like some of my colleagues, I know Mr. Barr and others have expressed desire to push for better, fairer trade deals.

I also have no further speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R…

It has been a long afternoon. We have covered a lot of territory, eight different bills, I think, today. As I had said earlier, there is no magic bill that is going to somehow cure or remedy some of the challenges that our capital markets…

I would like to point out to the ranking member that that could, too, be a unifying part of the House of Representatives, our collective frustration with the airlines and delays in getting us all here in a timely fashion for important…

I, too, want to commend our colleagues for working in a bipartisan manner, Mr. Loudermilk and Mr. Sherman, not only for dealing with this in committee; there was some trust that was shown on all sides to move forward on that, and this is…

I have no further speakers. I encourage my colleagues to vote for H.R. 5749, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga) that the…

I want to, again, thank the ranking member for her work on this and being able to move forward on this very important issue. And I, again, want to encourage all of our friends on all sides, on both sides of the aisle, to be supportive of…

I would love to hear. I will write you about harmonization of data for Fannie, and Freddie and FHA.

I can't emphasize enough how strongly we need to do this.

This is all about making sure that we have an active economy.

That crumb just got bigger.

I am just stunned by some of the conversations that are happening here about these bonuses.

Now we are talking about a bakery. We went from crumb to loaf to now we got a bakery going here.

This is the equivalent of calling these crumbs, and that doesn't matter to people, and that somehow or another this is not going to move the needle at all.

I thank the chairman for yielding. I congratulate my friend and colleague from Kentucky (Mr. Barr) for tackling this difficult and very important issue. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this much-needed legislation that would expand…

Chairman Huizenga. Thank you for that.

Like in Michigan, like so many other places around the country, in 2008, we saw a massive economic downturn where people lost their jobs, lost their savings, and some even lost their homes. The Obama administration and their allies in…

I think this really gets to what both the Chairman and a number of us have said is, if you have a financial institution that is not in trouble, that hasn't tripped any of these legal wires. Really, what is the legal standing for the…

The ranking member seems as if she would like to have a conversation about housing and prices. I am happy to do that--I am a former realtor and builder--just not right now. Today, we are here to talk about H.R. 4790, the Volcker Rule…

Despite the hyperbole you are hearing from the ranking member, nothing in this bill grants the Federal Reserve the ability to repeal the Volcker rule--nothing. Additionally, the other regulators, that alphabet soup of regulators, are still…

I want to say I am going to miss both the chairman and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Ross) after they leave this term. I am going to try to address the ranking member's timing issue, but the fact is that much of this bill simply codifies…

I would like to commend the bipartisan work of my colleagues and friends, Representative Ross and Representative Delaney. They have done a great job on this. Their bipartisan approach enhances the ability of FSOC to mitigate risk, a very…

I have to tell you, Director Mulvaney, it is good to have you here. The last director that was here pretty much stalled, obfuscated, ran out the clock, and filibustered his entire time.