Political Quotes

“I thank the ranking member for yielding me this time. Maybe I should try to right that wrong analogy that our chairman thought; but maybe if I take his analogy that it is not based on the house I sold but it is based on the house I am living in, well, what is the difference? If I went to the bank and wanted to put my house up for collateral but I hadn't paid the payment on it in 4 months and it was getting ready to be foreclosed on, I think they would want to know that. And that would be maybe a better analogy on it, because what we are trying to say to the people who are out there watching and listening to this: You cannot let our larger banks put us at risk, what we know also happened in 2008. So that was the point I was making. So let's say the analogies don't work so we don't have to go back and forth. Let me just say that I am voting ``no'' on this because I don't want to blindfold or tie the hands of the regulators' being able to do their jobs.”