I thank you very much, Congresswoman Jackie Speier, for spearheading this effort this evening and for the incredible work that you do for this House and for our country and for your superior knowledge of the financial markets and the…

Excellent analogy. They created rules by which only they could win, and that doesn't seem to me to be the spirit of free enterprise. They created so much collateral damage it brought down the economy of the whole country. They keep using…

I think he thought it was too little, didn't he? Mr. DeFAZIO. Well, compared to the enormous wealth that he created by shorting and manipulating and synthesizing. You know, the one thing I would reflect on, I was a little puzzled yesterday…

Do you happen to know what the bonuses were for Goldman Sachs? I know they totaled into the billions. Mr. DeFAZIO. Last year it was rather modest for Mr. Blankfein, he only got a $9 million bonus which was considerably less than previous…

Madam Speaker, this week the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges, in a rather unusually constructed civil case, Goldman Sachs committed fraud. But there is growing concern that evidence presented in this case could be excluded from…

Mr. Speaker, Wall Street speculation and the disaster it caused have been clear since the bailout in the fall of 2008. More foreclosures on Main Street, higher profits for Wall Street. I fought against that bailout, and I continue to fight…

I thank Congressman Donnelly for joining us this evening, and Congressman Franks from Arizona, Congressman Donnelly from Indiana, Congresswoman Kaptur from Ohio. To all of our colleagues from across this country, and certainly from the…

I thank you for your words and compassion; and, in a similar vein, wish to place in the Record two letters that have been issued relating to this tragedy. One is from Stefan Wisniowski, who is the President of the Kresy-Siberia Foundation…

I thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank my colleagues who are joining us this evening, including Congressman Joe Donnelly of Indiana, as we begin this special order commemorating the Polish Nation during its days of deepest mourning and the…

You know, Congressman Donnelly, when we think back to Poland's history during World War II, no nation lost a higher percentage of its people. Twenty percent of the population of Poland was eliminated. And the strength that it took to…

The gentleman's words are so eloquent. And I am reminded that in the resolution that was passed this afternoon here in the Congress, one of those who lost her life on that plane was Anna Walentynowicz, who's the former dock worker whose…