I had planned to come down to the floor here to manage some bills here in a couple of minutes, but I decided I needed to take this opportunity to address some of the things that the American people might have been hearing from the other…

I would like to echo the words of my colleague from Michigan: a bipartisan, unanimous bill coming out of the Financial Services Committee deserves the support of this House. We are very pleased that we have been able to strike this…

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.

Very quickly, just to recap, 60 percent of all job growth over the past two decades has come from small and emerging companies. This bill today recognizes that and encourages more of that to happen. It allows knowledgeable but maybe not…

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

They state in the letter that section 1502 provisions ``. . . inadvertently incentivize buyers on the international market to pull out of the region altogether and source their minerals elsewhere. ``As a result, the conflict minerals…

This misguided provision in Dodd-Frank requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to mandate that public companies disclose whether so-called ``conflict minerals'' they use in their products benefit armed groups in the Democratic…

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.

Let's talk about a stacked deck: trial attorneys putting cash over conscience. That is not the answer that we are in search of, but it is the answer that others who are opposed to this certainly are. The CFPB, the so-called Consumer…

Rather than taxpayer dollars lining the pockets of trial attorneys or special interest groups that have made a business by suing the Federal Government under ESA, these scarce resources should be directed toward making the law more…

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

For too long, litigating attorneys representing non-governmental entities have taken advantage of the Endangered Species Act, raking in millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded money.

This bill seeks to correct the current Endangered Species Act anomaly that incentivizes attorneys to spend time in court needlessly arguing.

I strongly believe that this straightforward legislation is a much-needed common-sense update to the ESA.

Quite simply, this bill seeks to correct the current Endangered Species Act anomaly that incentivizes attorneys to spend time in court arguing for inflated rates at the taxpayers' expense.

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.

This bill would standardize attorney's fees awarded in suits by private parties against the Federal Government.

Let's show taxpayers we respect their hard work by respecting their taxes.