If you were a customer of MF Global, would you accept the story that you are telling that you simply don't know where the funds are?

The private sector creates jobs, and we need to make sure that well-meant reforms that have unintended consequences...

Making sure the investors are protected is critical. It is. But also making sure that the environment is friendly for the creation of these companies will also give the investors an opportunity to invest.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank my colleague from Tennessee (Mr. Cohen) for his support of this as well as my colleague from middle Tennessee for his support as well. Mr. Speaker, my bill, H.R. 1264, will rename the plaza…

We have to work together here. We can't have us raising concerns and the agency blowing us off.

Congress hates surprises. We hate surprises.

We are at .24 percent on that capital reserve ratio. We are at a precipitous point.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, line 9, insert after ``$1,000,000'' the following: ``, as such amount is adjusted by the Commission…

I want to thank my colleague from North Carolina (Mr. McHenry) for his great work on this bill and for trying to put the focus on creating jobs. It's not often so many times what we do but what we can undo up here in Washington that will…

I yield to my colleague from North Carolina. Mr. McHENRY. I thank the gentleman from Tennessee for offering this bipartisan amendment. This is a good-government amendment. The old adage is ``a million bucks isn't what it used to be.''…

you have to admit with the AIG example back in 2008, we had many ERISA plans that had billions of dollars in credit default swaps, in more speculative swaps that, but for the taxpayers' rescue and pumping $700 billion to satisfy the calls…

I am a former trustee of a union ERISA plan for the ironworkers, and I understand--first of all, the mission of preserving those resources in retirement for the beneficiaries, in this case ironworkers, is more conservative--with a…

there is a level of personal responsibility that we all have in the country, and we must go back to that, that the government isn't the answer-all.

I come to the floor this morning to discuss the need to create jobs, my priority since I arrived here in January. Last Thursday, the President addressed Congress about his proposal to create jobs and move this country forward. We must do…

I stand before you today because my district recently suffered severe flooding this spring and summer which we are now just beginning to recover from. The flooding of the Mississippi River, caused by an unusual amount of rain from back-to…

The American taxpayers are crying out for commonsense spending of Federal tax dollars and urging Congress to review those rules and regulations which may stifle innovation and job creation. I introduced House Resolution 98, along with my…

On rollcall No. 288, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' The Acting CHAIR. Under the rule, the Committee rises. Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Ms. Foxx) having assumed…

As a seven-generation farmer, the phrase 'Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug,' that kind of goes with the farming industry.

The consumer is who benefits or who is hurt by whatever happens here.

When the Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last year, it was promised that Americans would have better access, more affordable and higher quality care. Instead, ObamaCare created what we all despise and know…

Amendment 27, originally proposed September 25, 1789; ratified May 7, 1992. ``No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have…