Jim Renacci: “That is really what we see with the Volcker Rule. What the agencies are doing is trying to find proprietary trading in…”

In my business world, if you came to me and told me revenues were going to increase by 66 percent, I would say, 'We are going to have some record good years.'

The problem is 1 or 2 percent on a $3.5 trillion budget is a big number in many cases.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``Yea'' on rollcall No. 694, ``Yea'' on rollcall No. 695, ``Nay'' on rollcall No. 696, ``Yea'' on rollcall No. 697, and ``Yea'' on rollcall No. 698. ____________________

We got to cut rates. We got to reduce our unsustainable path, and we got to look at what we are spending.