I urge all Members to adopt this amendment. I must admit, if people all over America are wondering why it is so difficult to get something done on a bipartisan basis, traditionally, the least controversial thing we do here is study…
Jeb Hensarling
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Jeb Hensarling is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2019. During his tenure, he served as the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, where he played a significant role in shaping financial regulation and policy. Hensarling was known for his advocacy of free-market principles and his opposition to the Dodd-Frank Act, which was enacted in response to the 2008 financial crisis.
May I inquire as to how much time is remaining on both sides. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentlewoman from California has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Might I inquire how much time is remaining on each side. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas has 15 minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from California has 13\1/2\ minutes remaining.
The SEC has now asserted its jurisdiction to hopefully stop the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) from regulating asset managers like banks.
The SEC finally completed the bipartisan JOBS Act rulemakings to implement the reg A+ and crowdfunding titles.
Vigorous oversight is also needed to ensure that the SEC is a good steward of its resources, both its time and its budget.
This committee is committed to conducting vigorous oversight of the SEC because the SEC's three-part mission is an important one as Americans continue to struggle through an economy that is underperforming.
It seems that the only time that the SEC actually modernizes its securities laws, to the benefit of the growing numbers of businesses, is when we here in Congress tell you to.
From my perspective, I don't believe that the SEC and the Federal securities laws should be used to help counter human rights abuses or further altruistic causes, no matter how important that they may be.
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Transportation ought to be funded out of transportation fees. It shouldn't be funded out of the functional equivalent of a bank account tax. It should not be funded on the backs of home buyers, or…
I guess, Chair Yellen, detail may be in the eye of the beholder, because Members of Congress still don't understand this.
How are market participants supposed to be convinced that we have less systemic risk when they have no insight into these tests?
Since I withdrew the request for the yeas and nays on the motion to recommit, then would it be possible for the ranking member, the gentlewoman from California, to withdraw her request for the yeas and nays on the underlying bill, should…
Again, I appreciate the gentleman from South Carolina making his parliamentary inquiries. I think it has helped clarify the matter. At this point, if it is the will of the House to send this back to committee, I look forward to the vote…
Yes, I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina for his parliamentary inquiry.
If the gentleman from Oklahoma, another valuable member of the House Financial Services Committee, who I know we are on opposite sides of this issue, if the gentleman would like time to speak, I would be happy to yield to the gentleman.
May I inquire how much time is remaining on each side? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois). The gentleman from Texas has 8\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentlewoman from California has 13 minutes remaining.
We cannot allow a program that has benefited Americans in times of need after a crisis, such as what happened in 2008, to be cut to the bone to the extent that it becomes ineffective.
It is simply not enough to marginally improve the lives of the able-bodied poor through perpetual government dependency; a caring and compassionate society must always have a ladder of opportunity on which everyone can climb.
In launching the war on poverty, President Johnson told us its purpose was, 'not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.'
Reclaiming my time, so I continue to hear ``diagnostic'' and read between the lines. So, again, at worst, the bill is redundant. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Neugebauer), the chairman of the Financial…





