"Congress continues to shirk its constitutional duties under Article I. funding the Government through short-term resolutions is not leadership and the American people deserve better."
"Basically, it was the regulatory equivalent of the Wild West."
"Fortunately, the Dodd Frank Act reinvigorates a stronger regulatory system that makes the financial marketplace more accountable."
"So we should be especially skeptical about the potential detriment presented by a rapid succession of big mergers in a given industry."
"there is a bipartisan realization in the House and Senate that it is a very broken system"
"There is a string of broken promises that could have been avoided if we wouldn't have permitted that merger."
"There are people in prison for sentences that are void against the public policy of the United States."
"The fact that many industries are now dominated by just a handful of very large firms attests to this failure of aggressive scrutiny."
"But, Mr. Conyers, for me it was the fact that I had to tell people that I did not know if they were going to get paid for the time they were at home."
"Do you believe that the McCarran-Ferguson Act should be repealed with respect to health insurers?"
"this is something that we need to address"