Mr. Kucinich. Mr. Rector, I just want to make sure that I heard you correctly. Did you say that welfare checks are substitutes for husbands?

Thank you very much, Mr. McGovern. And to my friend on the other side of the aisle, I want to say that I will be offering an amendment to the defense authorization bill which would defund the war in Libya. The war is unconstitutional. The…

To my friends on the other side of the aisle, I am offering an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill which would defund the war in Libya. The war is unconstitutional. The President did not come to this Congress, he went to the U.N…

It is clear to me what we are seeing is the result of a monopoly.

I think the chair has created a forum here for an important hearing.

Thank you for hosting today's hearing and for inviting the views and concerns of small-business owners to be considered on this important issue.

Low-income families across this country, including in my own district in Ohio, are especially harmed by high gas prices because they have a crippling effect on the price of food.

Stopping the manipulation of the market for the energy on which we are painfully dependent will have a significant impact on lowering gas prices.

the question becomes, what about having the Fed being put back in the control of the government, as the Founders intended?

when you are gouging people, you shouldn't get away with it.

the fact that there is concurrence suggests that there may be the potential for an alliance between conservatives in the House and those who are not conservative.

I want to just begin by letting the chair know how much appreciate the fact that you called this hearing.

So speculators are driving up the price. That is one factor.

We have to free ourselves from oil dependence, which has enriched oil companies and left Americans struggling to pay for gas to go to work.

I think the record is not good for the Federal Reserve in taking account of that longer-run responsibility.

By not raising the price at the pump.

Volatility in oil and gas prices will continue to threaten American prosperity until we change our Nation's energy policy.

If you can print, you can use quantitative easing to print an unlimited amount of money.

Congress cannot continue to allow American consumers to bear the brunt of our energy policies, which grant oil companies massive tax deductions in exchange for the privilege of reaping an unimaginable profit from extraction from the earth.

I want to challenge the conventional wisdom. We have a regulatory structure of the SEC which was basically designed in the 1930's, and the question is, is that really appropriate for today's Information Age?

I don't think we ought to have a system where we say only 2 percent of the population is so-called smart enough to be accredited investors.

There has been a lot of evidence that the SEC is somewhat dysfunctional.

One example is the whole area of accredited investor. This started off with the perfectly good intent of trying to keep the--allowing people who should be able to take care of themselves to be in without having to be regulated.

Whether there is such a thing as a public sphere with public servants who perform duties on behalf of the public...

Governor Walker's effort to repeal the rights of State workers is a nonfiscal, nonfiscal policy item.