I mention these specific examples because these are examples of how the disparate impact standard, well-settled standard, has had a positive impact on our society and especially on people in certain classes.

FHA is not a for-profit business. Is this a fair statement?

I tell people all the time that I am better than I deserve to be.

I think we could get a work product out of that.

FHA was established immediately after the Great Depression partly to get the economy back on its feet again.

I want to compliment you on your fine job that you are doing, and I look forward to working with you.

This delay creates significant uncertainty about the time and the implementation of the rest of the Affordable Care Act.

I regret that some of you have been detained possibly longer than we wanted you to be detained.

Currently our district has the highest percentage of people who have jobs, but no health insurance.

One of the things we may need to look at as a committee, that certain chemicals--we may have a higher standard for baby bottles...

We know we need to reform and it needs to be done in a reasonable way.

I appreciate the panel here. I want to thank the majority for calling a number of hearings on TSCA reform.

In politics, if a law proves to be efficacious, we repeal it.

I would also like to remind everyone that Dr. King called to our attention that on some questions we have to do that which is neither safe nor politic nor popular.

Somewhere along the way, in the 1980s we ceased to qualify people as homeowners and we started to qualify them as homebuyers.

Please permit me to extend to Mr. Cordray my best wishes, and let him know that I am looking forward to a future meeting with him.

I am begging, I beseech, I implore that we place this in the NDAA.

I am still impressed at how quickly things came together and how we were able to either capture or kill--and I don't like the terminology, but it speaks to what we are capable of doing--within a very short period of time persons who…

I do express my sympathies for the victims and my condolences, as well.

I promise to be terse and laconic.

I am a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act and I look forward to the next few months to learn how it will be implemented across the country.

I commend you and the President for writing a budget proposal that as a whole puts our country's health system on the right path forward.

So what we are trying to do is give the American public the same level of confidence in these mega-institutions that we have given in banks by using the FDIC.

Many of the rules that this bill aims to stop are rules that directly affect both my constituents and companies that employ my constituents.

Congressman Al Green who spoke out, and also thanks to the State Department, my sister Huong and six other victims were released and were allowed to return to Vietnam.