Lloyd Bentsen: “What we are seeing is a situation that enables banks to shop for the most lenient Federal regulator.”

as one who has consistently supported the Shays-Meehan Campaign Finance Reform bill (H.R. 2356) and who signed its discharge petition, I rise in strong support of this critical reform legislation. I also would like to recognize the…

the underlying bill is not perfect, and I do not think the substitute is necessarily perfect, but there are certain pieces of the substitute that I think would make the underlying bill better. Number one, the substitute is stronger on the…

Last year when we began putting together the budget for fiscal year 2002 and really putting together the Republican economic program for the next 10 years, we were told that the unified budget surplus would be $5.6 trillion over the next…

I rise today to recognize a brave Houston firefighter who lost his life this weekend while battling a fire in a Houston high-rise condominium. Like firefighters in New York and Northern Virginia, who willingly put their lives on the line…