Pat Ryan: “If you are a bank and you want to operate like some nonbank entity, like a hedge fund, then don't be a bank.”

the fact that zero dollars from this huge, multibillion-dollar plan are going to go to improve service to my constituents is incredibly frustrating, and, I think, a significant public policy failure.

Mr. Speaker, we face a fundamental question here: Who makes the decision to send our most precious resource, our young men and women in uniform, into harm's way? Is it a five-time draft dodger who has called them suckers and losers, or is…

Far too often, small and midsized police departments like ours lack the resources they need.

I thank my colleague, Mr. Deluzio, for his leadership on this and for bringing this group together to remind us that as Americans who love this country, we need that strong, muscular economic patriotism to serve my constituents in my…