José E. Serrano

It is a Band-Aid in my opinion, because we will resolve it for today, but we will not resolve it for 5 years from now.

I would argue that status is the problem, and it is always the right time to discuss status.

I know that the Republicans have a concern about overregulating, but with the Commission having to, first, go to voluntary standards I am very concerned about underprotecting our consumers.

We have a duty and an obligation to ensure that those expectations are met.

It is not your information, it is the consumers' information, and the consumer ought to have the right to say yes or no as to whether you do it.

If you ask for more money for judges, I personally will give it to you, because I truly believe the solution is bringing them before a court of jurisdiction.

I think we should look at it again.

it seems to me that at this time in the history of our country to be fighting the voting rights issue all over again is a very sad state of affairs.

Access to mainstream financial services is a serious problem in the Bronx and elsewhere.

I am still not convinced, I have never been convinced, about the private debt collectors. I don't like them.

I had the pleasure of going up there to the dedication ceremony for the Minidoka Dam.

Well, I am glad to hear that you used the word enforcement because I keep telling this story, but it cannot be told enough.

Your budget request for this fiscal year is quite reasonable, in my opinion, given the large and growing oversight role that you are expected to undertake.

I vote in the Bronx, I pay taxes in the Bronx, I look forward to living there again.

I said, 'Why do you not just go to a college dorm? It will be resolved in a half an hour, if you get some of those kids in here.'

But some of us feel that what made our country great was investing in our country also, investing in infrastructure, investing in education.

A strong and vigilant SEC is vital to protecting not just those who invest in the financial markets, but the American people as a whole.

We cut taxes when we shouldn't have and we threw away a surplus on a war that we shouldn't have been involved in.

I do not want to sound like a Republican, but----

I think that decision is unwise at best.

I think it speaks well of the Appropriations Committee's more bipartisan nature.

I am one who believes that, notwithstanding the omnibus situation that we always have at the end of the year, it is not this committee that causes that.

I think if we learn anything from that it is to be careful about the future, protect our country, try to give the working class people in this country less of a tax burden.

Well, they have done a great job.

I hope we can continue it. But there are many people who still feel that it is 19 percent below the fiscal year 2010 funding level.