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On the recordNovember 3, 2011
Congress has an opportunity today to unleash investors in American business for the benefit of capital formation in America for American companies and jobs. Additionally, we have an opportunity because we have worked so well together. There is joint agreement to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions in the United States with this legislation. Reforms to company-investor relations are long overdue, long overdue that would reform the industry to make them better, stronger--to add jobs, may I add. Congress should be doing everything we can do to help economic growth and development, to jump-start the free enterprise system and put Americans back to work. That happens through capital formation. Growing our economy and slowing Federal spending will be the best way to get this government back and the economy back on track and getting out of the rising debt and deficit that is facing this great Nation. The underlying bills provide necessary steps today for doing just that. So I applaud my colleagues, Mr. McHenry and Mr. McCarthy, for introducing the bills that we're discussing here today.…
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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