I thank the chairman. I think the compromise language we are considering today strikes the right balance, and I urge my colleagues to support that approach, and I thank the Members for working together to help us to get to this point. Mr…

I thank the chairman for advancing this bill to the floor. I also congratulate the sponsor of the bill, Mrs. Wagner, for leading forward with a piece of legislation that has, at its heart, to work in a bipartisan manner to protect American…

Earlier I said that I often wonder whether people who come to the floor to oppose some of our bills ever actually read the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.

Exactly. That is why I asked both of you twice what you said. What you said on the floor and what you just said a moment ago is, you were talking about broker-dealers, but you said it was investment advisers. It just points out, Mr…

Now I am going to go a step further. I wonder whether the people who oppose this bill actually know what the law is. The law is and has been for decades that, if you are an investment adviser, you already have a fiduciary standard with…

I thank the chairman for yielding me time. How you ended your comments was, Let's move this bipartisan amendment to this bill, and what I was trying to do in a bipartisan manner was to ask the question: Is simply what you are trying to do…

I thank the gentlelady. I guess I will be speaking for a minute or two on the issue of unworkability of what's before us right now. Mr. Speaker, I have to remind all of us here that for years now Republicans have come to this floor with…

Your privacy is under attack. The Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare, is creating a data hub for every American's personal health information and financial information. It's basically a central location for all of America, for all of your…

On Saturday, September 21, New Jersey and our Nation lost a true hero. Staff Sergeant Timothy Raymond McGill was killed in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. After graduating from Ramsey High School in 2001, Staff…

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I thank the gentleman from Texas for his leadership on this legislation today. I rise in support of H.R. 1155, which is the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act. This bill is, as we like to say, a commonsense…

If I had some of the charts showing where some of the wealthiest districts are in the Nation, where, despite the turmoil of '08 and the financial crisis, where prices of real estate continue to rise, where revenues continue to go up, it…