Stephen Lee Fincher

So many people, Chairman Bernanke, think now that the government's role is to step in and save the day.

I fear that the government's intervention into trying to make sure the private sector is running at full capacity creates all sorts of problems.

For the first time in the history of the farm bill, the direct payments, the farm subsidies that we've all known to exist are going away.

Congress can put money back in, but they haven't--but they've failed to do it.

When agriculture, when crops are produced, the dollar turns over and over and over in the local communities, and then on top of that, they're not getting compensated from the Government what they're told they were going to be compensated…

Look, as a farmer myself, again, my boys hunt and fish, I hunt and fish, but working together with Fish and Wildlife, we can take care of the land better than the Government and better than Fish and Wildlife.

Let me ask this: Are you aware that citizens that are impacted by this proposal were only given 7 days notice?

As Americans we need to understand the amount of debt and the fact that we're running deficits every year.

These numbers are reflective of the frustrations I hear from my constituents all the time: 'What are you doing to help create an environment where new ideas and companies can succeed, grow, and create more jobs?'

As a lead sponsor of the JOBS Act, the gentleman from Delaware, Mr. Carney, and I believe that something had to be done to help small business and entrepreneurs create more jobs on Main Street.

We have to be careful that this one-size-fits-all approach usually ends up not being the right fit.

A lot of folks believe Democrats and Republicans can't agree on anything. However, the bills we are considering this morning are examples of two parties coming together for good governance.

I am against the further acquisitions of lands along the lower Hatchie River, the Mississippi and its tributaries in west Tennessee.

Do they pose a systemic risk to U.S. financial institute? No. I do not believe they do at all.

If you try to take all of the risks out of the market, then you have no market.

I want to thank you for your continued work, but more must be done before we can deem the derivatives market safe and sound.

Congress has now enacted Title VII to address this kind of rampant speculation and turn the over-the-counter derivatives market from that opaque backroom market operation to a more transparent public market, something more akin to the…

As we know, Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act brought historic and much needed reform to the over-the-counter derivatives market by bringing these financial products out of the shadows and onto transparent exchanges and requiring companies…

Credit is a necessary part of America's financial system. A person's credit report has become as important as their resume, personal reputation or integrity.

I am confident--again, you are successful in your businesses--that in America you will find a way to make it work, because that is who we are as a country.

Whatever unintended effect Dodd-Frank may have on job creators, it pales in comparison to the havoc Wall Street wreaked on our economy during the financial crisis.

It appears my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have come down with a case of collective and sudden amnesia, forgetting that our financial industry is struggling because of a loss of integrity, the loss of trust because of the last…

My friends, and I mean 'my friends' on the other side of the aisle want to do away with any reform that we put in place because of this colossal historical financial debacle that we have gone through beginning in 2008.

I do applaud the sponsors of H.R. 4624 for putting forward a thoughtful approach to improving investment adviser examinations.

This is taxpayer money, and when people back home see that this is happening... it just upsets them.