I can tell you that when we explain it, especially for a number of the freshmen that are coming in who have not dealt with this in the past, you kind of get that same reaction where it is like, really?

I thank my good friend from Illinois for yielding. Mr. Chairman, we not only serve on the Financial Services Committee together, we also share a Great Lake. Michigan is uniquely situated, literally bordering all five of the Great…

I would like to commend my friend, my freshman colleague from Minnesota, for offering this amendment, and commend him for his service to our country in the military and then what he's been doing. I think it's a valuable lesson, having been…

I wish you could meet my friend, Dr. Gaylen Byker, a truly renaissance man who was born in Iowa but raised in Hudsonville, Michigan, which is in my district, where he grew up in a family that was very entrepreneurial and very politically…

We do take every opportunity to demand market access, and we saw, again, a very important step forward by China.

We don't think there is anybody who should be saying the race is done.

We think China should undertake the same policies, that it would be only fair for us and very beneficial for the dynamism of their economy.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike section 212. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Michigan will be postponed. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: Sec. 213…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I've got a radical idea, a radical idea for the people of America. Let's use Harbor Maintenance Trust Funds for harbor maintenance. For 25 years, we've been robbing Peter to pay Paul, but in reality that $7 billion…

On rollcall No. 133, had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' personal explanation

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a massive new branch of government created under the Dodd-Frank Act, fails to safeguard proprietary information given to the Bureau by regulated entities. I rise today in support of my bill, H.R…

I just wanted to gently correct her, when she had indicated that Europe is our largest trading partner. It, in fact, is Canada.

I appreciate the opportunity to address the House and to address the Nation today. As a small business owner, I know the importance of fostering and creating an environment that promotes job creation, economic security and opportunity, and…

We appreciate Representative Huizenga's work on this important issue.

Richard Cordray, Director of the CFPB, appointed by President Obama, recently testified that this was an 'oversight.'

I hope there are another 14 hearings because this is one of the most expansive steps that government has taken.

Let me be clear. We all agree that we need to have stringent consumer protections, but these reforms are much-needed common-sense measures, I believe.

Today I rise in support of national school choice because we need to offer our children effective education opportunities. And in Michigan, despite spending just shy of $10,000 annually to educate each child, we need to look at a couple of…

Let us go prove to the American people that we can set aside bickering and go get something done that is going to protect the consumer and protect those who are serving the consumer.

There is a sense of frustration oftentimes that what we are hearing from our constituents and try to express is not responded to.

I appreciate your candor. Those don't sound like huge problems to me, short of maybe the ombudsman creation.

People are not feeling hurt. They are looking for openness and genuineness, and they don't feel like they are getting that.

I, too, want to rise today in recognition of this 39th year since this decision has come down from the Supreme Court, and it is something that has affected my family, my life. I think we have all known somebody who has had an abortion…

I appreciate this time to come and report back to this body and to the people of the Second District about my very quick but very informative weekend trip to Afghanistan where I was able to be cautiously encouraged by the progress that the…