Deborah Koff Ross

I have a strong sense of making sure that we can serve those lands.

It seems to me that what we are doing is allowing for an unfair competitive advantage to those who do not participate.

the economic impact that the agricultural industry will face because of this proposed rule is absolutely devastating.

they were a victim of it, I guess, would be a better way to put it.

It's easy to beat up on you, it's easy to look for a scapegoat when the agenda really is to make sure that we make it harder, not easier, to enforce gun trafficking.

We have done everything to make sure that the 'F' in 'ATF' is nullified.

patriotism also means standing up for the men and women who wear our uniform, who bravely--who bravely defend this country.

I'm very grateful to you for doing this. I know that it is not always the most enjoyable part of your day, but I also understand that it's necessary.

Whose side are we on? The side of service members risking their lives and their safety and their health, and the side of other homeowners and their families? Or on the side of the banks that are committing violations against these folks?

I, too, am on the side of service members and other homeowners across the country who have been the victims of these illegal--and I emphasize, illegal--actions.

A service member stationed overseas, fighting for their country, risking their life, while back here their family is losing their home-- illegally.

I hope we can come together and work with a common purpose to do what this committee has the opportunity to do best: to help millions of American families improve their lives by demanding accountability and compliance with the law.

illegal foreclosures against U.S. service members is a growing problem.

we need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, and abusive financial practices.

The suggestion that somehow this is just targeted for for-profit.

What if you were a used car dealer and you went to the bank and said I want to borrow money, but 70 percent of my customers are going to default?

I have a lot of concern about a sector that I have been an advocate for for a very long time.

But, you know, in my district and other places around the country GM essentially put people out of business like that, people who had auto dealerships in their families for generations.

It's an action that was done to them by this administration while they were picking winners and losers, and it's one that needs to be addressed by the administration.

And I want to thank the gentleman from Indiana because of a point that he makes about people in his district and Delphi employees who were not protected in the bankruptcy is well received here.

the administration picked winners and losers, and not only do the taxpayers need to know, because taxpayers' money was involved, but certainly these Delphi retirees deserve an answer.

So while this may have been historic in the President's way of talking about it, it was absolutely catastrophic for small business people.

So it is not overwhelming. It is not clear and convincing. It is not beyond a reasonable doubt.

Well, the last time I looked that the NLRB was an arm of the U.S. Congress.

this hearing misses the point that the purpose of a National Labor Relations Board investigation is to determine what is in the public good