Pete Sessions: “I would like to yield 5 minutes to the chairman of the Financial Services Committee, the gentleman from Birmingham…”

We think we have to make it work, and we think in Congress, we have got to work together to make that work.

The reason why we get specific about these items on both sides of the aisle is that we find that there is happy-talk conversation between us, and then something different appears

That is why we respect the ability of local people to make local decisions and to come up with an answer.

I thank the distinguished gentleman and friend from Kansas for yielding. I also thank my colleague from the District of Columbia, representing the minority or the Democratic Party on the Subcommittee on Government Operations and the…