I do want to also echo what Chairman Bachus said about--if my figures are right--the SEC having missed approximately 62 percent of its mandatory deadlines under Dodd-Frank.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

I find myself agreeing with about 80 percent of what our President says. I just end up disagreeing with about 80 percent of what he does.

I have to tell you, whether I am talking to Fortune 50 CEOs in Dallas, Texas, where I reside, or good, honest, hardworking small business people in the rural areas of the Fifth District of Texas, they cite the red tape and regulatory…

Clearly, there is concern here. And I guess, Madam Chairman, there may be something to what you are doing. Many of us have open minds.

I would hope that you would be very careful in your deliberations there.

At a time when our Nation is still suffering from roughly 37 to 38 straight months of 8 percent-plus unemployment, with the underemployment being almost twice that, the worst record since the Great Depression.

I thank the chairman for yielding, and I especially thank him for his national leadership on this pressing issue of the national debt. Mr. Chairman, last week, Secretary Geithner came up to Capitol Hill to warn of the threat to the…

Two paths. Two choices. One duty. I hope history records that we acted worthy of ourselves, that we acted worthy of our forefathers, that we acted worthy of this great Republic for which so many have sacrificed over the years. No more…

So we know it's the middle-income who will end up paying this. Second point: we repealed the President's failed health care program, the one that we now understand is going to cost almost $2 trillion, the one that now the Congressional…

Mr. Chairman, regrettably the President's policies have failed and continue to harm our economy. We were told if we would pass the stimulus plan, unemployment would never exceed 8 percent, and instead it's exceeded 8 percent for 37…