Deborah Koff Ross

The more the Supreme Leader makes specific points about the content and purposes of the negotiations in public the more his comments are likely to tie the hands of his negotiators.

Florida Southern College is a liberal arts college nestled in my hometown of Lakeland, Florida. It is known not only as a great academic institution, but also contains the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world…

There is a time limitation in the U.S. Code currently preventing this award from being presented to Mr. Halcomb.

I introduced House Resolution 1337, legislation to waive the time limits for the award of the Distinguished Service Cross to Edward Grady Halcomb for acts of extraordinary heroism during the Korean War.

I know that you mentioned back in December that you were going to help develop recommendations to address potential risks in the asset management industry.

I just wanted to make you aware of a particular bipartisan bill that I just introduced yesterday known as the Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2015.

Shouldn't the FSOC's primary focus be on making sure that these entities that may have systemic risks, that those are addressed properly rather than turning them over to the Fed to just say, here is a bank-centered prudential banking…

When you look at a lot of investors that are utilizing asset managers to invest in retirement funds and college education funds, it almost becomes a cost prohibition to have this designation.

But returning them to the Fed for regulation when it may not be their primary regulator, might not be the best way to impress this.

But understanding the impact that it could have on our domestic insurance market if we have to impose upon them international standards, which we had a chance to preempt, had we had a little bit more aggressive representation.

And they should take that into consideration.

But I guess you would agree that the rule change--

And so, I have some proposed legislation that has some bipartisan support that I will be filing here shortly.

The American Action Forum did a study in 2014 and found that additional capital requirements on asset managers could cost American retirees at least $100,000 in potential savings accumulation.

I thank my good friend from Utah (Mr. Stewart). Madam Speaker, on November 4, 1979, the American Embassy in Tehran was seized and Iranians held 50 American hostages for more than 444 days. Each year, on November 4, Iranians celebrate death…

Every time the government gets in the business of business, it draws some concerns.

I would suggest that we might want to start a 12-step process.

And does the market not work perfectly because some of the prices that are involved in the market are competitively low and set by government?

It has been suggested that it is for first-time homebuyers who can't afford a home and allows them to enter into the market.

We have seen a housing crisis, which has been precipitated by a housing policy that encouraged people to buy houses that they could not afford.

So you give them essentially due process, if you will--

I am very concerned that there are not guidelines being issued to mitigate the risk for nonbank financial institutions.

Would you agree, in addition to the regulations, that we ought to just codify that as part of the Dodd-Frank Act...

Today I rise in strong support of this bipartisan legislation that will award a Congressional Gold Medal to the civil rights leaders who so bravely marched for voting rights and equality from Selma, Alabama, to the State capital of…

I rise this morning to bring to the attention of my colleagues an important event taking place this Friday in the 15th Congressional District of Florida which I have the privilege to represent. With the opening of the Florida Center for…