Ted Budd: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Encouraging Public Offerings Act, a bill…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Encouraging Public Offerings Act, a bill that the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks) and I have worked on together, and I thank him for that. I also thank the Financial Services Committee, in particular, the staff and the subcommittee chairman, Mr. Huizenga. I also thank the chairman, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hensarling). His leadership of this committee and his devotion and fidelity to the conservative principles are legendary. His retirement will be a great loss to this institution. The Hensarling legacy of conservative leadership will not be forgotten, and I am certain that his next chapter will be as great as this one. He will be missed by all, especially by those of us--myself among them--who share his vision and his limited government principles. Mr. Speaker, no other country has a better history of connecting money with vision than the United States of America. We rightfully celebrate our legendary entrepreneurs: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Andrew Carnegie, Tom Davis, John Rockefeller, and a whole host of others who built the companies that drive our economy. None of those men could have done what they did without capital. None of them could have done what they did without intermediaries to connect that capital to their vision. So, Mr.…”