Francisco Canseco

One thing that continues to amaze me is the complete disconnect between what goes on in Washington and the realities on the ground in our economy.

Is it the chairman's understanding that, after adoption of the manager's amendment, the bill contains reforms that would only allow for lands to come into the park via donation or exchange, and that these reforms apply only to the land…

I want to thank the chairman, Mr. Hastings, the park subcommittee chairman, Mr. Bishop, and the staff of the Natural Resources Committee for working with me to move my legislation, the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Boundary…

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the Financial Services Committee has responsibly contributed, roughly, $35 billion in deficit reduction measures to this bill, and I am happy that one of these measures that I…

The victims of MF Global deserve their money back, but they also deserve to know what happened to it.

Yet, for all the rhetoric we hear from the Obama Administration about holding people accountable, this Administration sure has a way of clamming up when the person in question is a former Democratic Senator and Governor.

There is a big financial crisis going on right now for farmers and for ranchers across the country who can't access their portion of $1.6 billion that has gone missing at MF Global.

I feel the greater discussion revolves around the public's perception of Washington and the current lack of trust that voters across the country have in their elected leaders.

Yogi Berra once said, 'It is deja vu all over again.'

Serious allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse have been leveled against the HOME Program.

This is a spending-driven debt crisis that has us borrowing approximately 40 cents of every dollar.

Our Nation has a debt of just over $14.9 trillion; over $126,700 per American household on average.

Fundamentally, this agreement is about the economic freedom of the American people to be able to have a wide array of choices and pay less for those choices because of the power of trade and competition.

Congress must examine closely the operations of these institutions to ensure that they are functioning safely and soundly.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has as much as said that credit is the lifeblood of our economy.

The American people deserve an answer, not a history lesson.

Yet, during that timeframe, we have seen gigantic accounting scandals, such as Enron and Worldcom; billion-dollar Ponzi schemes, Madoff and Stanford; and a mortgage meltdown that has left millions of Americans unemployed.

I rise in support of repealing the $2.6 trillion Washington takeover of health care. I spent the past year speaking with thousands of Texans in the 23rd District. The message I received was explicit and distinct: Repeal and replace the…