Moreover, the application of antitrust law's potentially to pro-competitive collective activity has become far more sophisticated in the 62 years since the industry was exempted from the law. And some forms of joint activity that might…

We have heard on the Republican side this is just about the little guys. They only want to help the little guys. Except that the loopholes that they would create with the Lungren provisions could be used by the big guys. So if you like the…

I still have confidence in the courts that they can read the simple understanding that when we say 'health insurance,' we don't mean life insurance. I mean, this is getting pretty fundamental here. But, of course, you are correct, Mr…

No casualty insurance, no other kind of insurance but the one plainly listed in a two-page bill. So my confidence in the courts is unrestricted that they can get this right. The lack of a statutory definition is intended solely to give the…

Today, we rise to salute not only Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but also recalling those days when we were marching for a King holiday. We salute Dr. King and Stevie Wonder for the wonderful inspiration he gave us all with his musical…

I just want to tell our colleague from Tennessee, Mr. Zach Wamp, that that was the most amazing recapitulation of what happens to people when they go and trace these incredible moments in history that many of us have lived through. I…

I would like to express my deepest condolences to the people of Haiti who have lost family, friends and loved ones in yesterday's earthquake. I understand that the island as a whole has been devastated, and that the capital city of…

We passed it in the House. The Senate, as usual, they weren't able to shut off the filibusters, so the bill was withdrawn, and so we are working again.

I think you should remain Chairman in the next Congress as well. So ordered.

I just left a press conference of the Congressional Black Caucus, and that is what we were talking about; how do we create jobs and ease this crisis that we are in?

This is important to us because, as you are going to testify, the subprime mortgage debacle was what triggered the financial place that we find ourselves in not nationally but globally as well.

You can't Chair two Subcommittees at the same time.

In May of this year, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal. The ramifications of this case are enormous.

How can you explain that?

The government should take some of the blame, but the government didn't plan the risky, risky, unregulated credit transactions.

I think that theory has been reexamined much more carefully.

Small banks failed at a rate not since seen since the savings and loan crisis in the 1980's.

What caused the crisis was the mistaken belief shared by Republican and Democratic administrations in the past that the financial industry could be relied upon to regulate itself without significant government oversight.

we have been in consultation with Chairman Barney Frank, and that both the Judiciary Committee and the Finance Committee are moving together

Why do you have to give these people that caused the problem taxpayer money?

I want to say here and now that the resolution authority risks creating a new generation of companies that are too big to fail.

We are looking very carefully at H.R. 3310.

Every day, Monday through Friday, every week, 195 families in my city are served with eviction or foreclosure notices because they are behind in their mortgage payments.

I want to commend all of our witnesses here today, including Mr. Wainstein, who's been very forthcoming.

Of course, I mentioned the Sensenbrenner/Conyers PATRIOT Act that got doused in the Rules Committee.