Steve Cohen

I believe we need to look at that case.

Each day he is in prison, in my opinion, is a grave injustice because all that man did... was politics.

I think today what is good for Federal Express is good for the country.

There could be nobody better in this country...to give the opening remarks on the 21st century than Fred Smith.

It is indeed my honor to be here, and to congratulate the panel on its work and its selection of its first testifier.

I just want to thank you for your leadership, and it's been an honor to join you today on the floor on this issue. It's important to be addressed.

Memphis borders Arkansas, and there was some kind of a pipeline problem over there recently. I think it might have been Exxon. They had a leak. That's kind of an expensive process. That's similar to the Keystone pipeline; isn't it? It…

Mr. Blumenauer, let me ask you this--and we've worked together on the Keystone XL issue--When people come to you and say that it's going to create all these jobs, we need jobs and they can get this oil, these tar sands to China if they…

I appreciate your bringing up the idea of the hottest year. In Memphis, it does occasionally get hot, but it also does in Washington. I think it's supposed to be 90 today. I suspect, and somebody is going to be able to prove me wrong, but…

The more readily you come to conclude that this legislation may be a solution in search of a problem.

I have an asbestos victim's letter and a number of public interest groups opposed to the Act. I would ask that their letters and statements be made a part of the record.

I don't see any need for it or any purpose to it.

Yet, I learned about the FACT Act during a previous hearing that we had in the previous Congress...

This is a very personal issue for me because Warren Zevon was one of my closest of friends...

More problematically, it could end up hurting asbestos victims by denying them full compensation for the harms that they have suffered.

Yet as I learned about the FACT Act... the more readily I came to conclude that this legislation may be a solution in search of a problem.

The debate over the necessity to fully compensate victims of asbestos exposure is very personal to me.

So if most of them are not controversial, why should we be burdening ourselves with this?

It is not addictive, so that is good.

I think Congress could make time for major rules or other things if they cut out fundraisers, constituent service, district visits, and ceremonial bills.

I am a big supporter of small community banks, but I am not a big supporter of the REINS Act, which just makes no sense to me.

The House will do its part, and for the sake of our economic future, I call on the Senate and the Obama Administration to do theirs.

It is often left to those of us on this side of the aisle to point out not only that there are benefits to regulation, but that those benefits consistently outweigh regulation's costs.

The overreach of Obama Administration regulations is one of the chief reasons the economy has failed adequately to recover and produce new jobs throughout the Obama Administration.

I am committed to restoring accountability and providing relief from excessive regulation to our nation's small businesses and job creators who need it most.