Carolyn Maloney

Are you also aware that in the three years since 2010, the real per capita annual growth rate of national health expenditure has been just 1.3 percent?

if anyone knew about it and didn't report it or stop it, that is a criminal offense.

At the very least, going forward, it should be clear--any CD from a foreign bank, that nothing from a foreign bank is covered.

Our bill attempts to fix these flaws and would reaffirm the primary purpose of the Securities Investor Protection Act.

Unfortunately, in the Madoff case, SIPC and the trustees have pursued a highly aggressive strategy that in my opinion has unfairly punished some of my constituents.

this is a tremendous problem going forward

we are actually reducing protections for those people precisely for whom we should be going out of our way to improve protections, and that is an unfortunate consequence.

the public policy debacle that SIPC and the trustee are representing here

The purpose of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 was to reverse what Bobby Kennedy described as the insidious effect of racial segregation in housing.

despite the government shutdown... they continued to perform services for the American public.

everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts.

this request is not a bailout... but a reflection of old information.

Thank you, Chairman Garrett, for holding this important hearing.

The United States has the deepest, most liquid, and most effective capital markets in the world.

A shutdown is a self-imposed injury, a self-manufactured crisis that we should not have to suffer through.

The closing of one of our most important monuments, the symbol of democracy and freedom, Liberty Park, not only is a huge blow to our economy of the city but to the morale of our city.

I am really concerned, Mr. Chairman, if this Congress does not act later today to raise the debt ceiling, the consequences and long-term damage to the economy and prestige of our country would be dire.

We can correct it immediately by going down to the floor in 10 minutes, putting a clean CR on the floor, and voting for it.

195 Democrats have signed a petition saying that they will vote today, they will vote in 10 minutes, to open up the government.

I also think that it is important that we realize the impact the government shutdown is having on our economy.

I, for one, hope that we can stop that at the very least.

I found the report that was issued this week by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle a very partisan staff report on its separate investigation of Benghazi.

Extending TRIA really should be a no-brainer, because it works, it protects taxpayers, it creates jobs, and it costs absolutely nothing.

There were personal attacks on national television stating that the former Secretary of State lied under oath.

Some have attacked the program as 'corporate welfare' and a potential liability to the hardworking taxpayers of America.