Let me just first be clear that we are not expanding anything in this amendment. The statute says exactly what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is supposed to do. This amendment just allows the funding to enable them to do it. This…

I think that is an honorable objective. The problem is that this debate has wandered off into a discussion about whether the SEC effectively did what it was supposed to do with respect to Bernie Madoff. And when I hear my colleague, Mr…

Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

I oppose the estate tax provisions in this bill, and I'm thankful that the rule would allow us to vote against this estate tax. But I also oppose the extension of the high income tax cuts, and I oppose the way we are doing the Social…

I want to thank my colleague for the time and for his leadership in this tremendous effort. I would like to spend some time just challenging a notion that is out there that this whole meltdown was unforeseeable by anybody, that nobody…

All of that is in this bill. If we had had this kind of legislation in effect when we first started introducing it back in 2004, we could have avoided this. Don't let anybody say that this was an unforeseeable chain of events that led to…

I am honored to welcome Reverend Dr. Roderick D. Lewis, Sr., as the guest chaplain for the United States House of Representatives for today. Since July of 2001, Reverend Dr. Lewis has served as pastor of Parkwood Institutional CME Church…

Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, a granddaughter of slaves and a native of Henderson, North Carolina, was born in June of 1883.

Dr. Brown was a natural leader at an early age: at 12 she organized a kindergarten department at her church and at 14 she was chosen as orator for her minister's 15th anniversary.

Much of Dr. Brown's success can be attributed to the founding of the Palmer Memorial Institute but she was also involved in various community and civic organizations.

Dr. Brown was a founding member of the North Carolina State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, an organization dedicated to the betterment of African-American womanhood.

Ultimately the State granted $50,000 for the establishment of a new facility for the training of disadvantaged African-American girls.