The purpose of this bill, as I understand it, is for transparency and for people to understand what's happening out there as people spend lots of money--other people's money, very often--to advocate for or against candidates. In the case…

I thank the chairman for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, this bill has teeth, real teeth, great big, nasty sharp teeth that are finally going to force businesses and banks around the world to choose between the American economy and financial…

Gilad Shalit is not an American. He is an Israeli soldier who has been held captive by Hamas for 4 years. His parents are not Americans. I don't know that he's ever even been to the United States. But I would contend that, nonetheless…

I rise on this historic day in strong support of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, H.R. 4872. Let me be perfectly clear: all Americans should have access to affordable and quality health-care coverage…

I am frankly astonished that the resolution has even come to the floor. I am afraid some of our colleagues either misunderstand the plain text of the War Powers Act or would like the House to initiate a legislative version of the so-called…

They can likewise vote against the annual and supplemental appropriations that fund the war. What Members ought not be able to do is to waste 3 full hours of the House's time debating a resolution founded, at best, on a mistake and, at…

My president sold me a clunker, and I paid for it with my children's and my constituent's children and grandchildren's cash.

My president sold me a clunker and I'd paid for it with my children's and my constituent's children and grandchildren's cash. I guess the question I would ask is this -- as of 8:00 last night, do we have a new war? Or do we have an old war…

I don't think it takes a lot of convincing to make the case that Tehran's goals in our part of the world are not benign.

One of the greatest threats the hemisphere faces is the rising influence of Iran.

Venezuela is where all the dots connect.

This close bond has created dangerous conditions in our hemisphere.

This wave of anti-Semitism cannot be tolerated.

That leaves, if I could just interject there, a larger problem because that means that our citizens are not entitled to have confidence in the system.

thousands of now penniless victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme are interested in just one thing: making sure their government lives up to its word.

But these, unfortunately, are people that we have encouraged and assured by virtue of the fact that we provide the supervision.

We are going to have to make a decision. Someone has to make a choice here.

That Madoff was able to conduct his fraud unmolested by the SEC for decades and despite the repeated red flags raised by Harry Markopoulos is tragic.

The court-appointed trustee in the Madoff case is seeking to delay and ultimately deny the insurance payments due to Madoff's victims is absolutely shameful.

If we could step into our time machines and go back in time before the near collapse of AIG, I have little doubt that we would have near unanimous support for regulating credit default swaps.

we would be naive to consider proposals for regulating and clearing OTC products without also establishing a regulator to protect our markets against systemic risks.

free speech cannot be charged for. You don't charge anybody for exercising free speech.

If you want to exercise free speech, you shouldn't have a government license.

Time and again, we have heard from the agencies that their ratings were really sound, despite the billions of dollars in losses that investors realized on so-called AAA rated mortgage-backed securities.

Would you be adverse to putting a warning on your ratings, much like on cigarette cartons, that says, 'This rating is not a statement of fact'?