Jeb Hensarling: “Many American families are walking a financial tightrope.”

Tonight it is a privilege that I have to yield to somebody who has become a good friend and an excellent colleague, who has served with me, at my side, at the House Financial Services Committee, who will be leaving us at the end of this…

May I ask how much time I have left? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bacon). The gentleman from Texas has 7 minutes remaining.

As we saw in the last crisis, it is the average hardworking Americans that will suffer the consequences if Washington deregulates Wall Street mega banks again.

I would just point out again, all this bill does is extend for 6 months the current policies of the NFIP. Not one single policy of the NFIP is changed in this bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from…