On rollcall No. 854, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' Stated against:

Well, I will very briefly. I understand that I've gone over the time that I was supposed to be speaking.

Part of the other problem is that you may not find the interest actually by the broker-dealers if you're talking about a $25,000 or $50,000 or $100,000 enterprise. Is that another reason why you went this way? Mr. McHENRY. Yes. The idea is…

One of the reasons that you do that is because we are talking about small companies, companies that may be creative artists starting up a business, a nonprofit starting up a business, a small entrepreneur, so you're talking about small…

I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina. Mr. McHENRY. I thank my colleague for yielding. This is a very important point of distinction here. These intermediaries are not broker-dealers. That is neither the intent on either side of the…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for all of his work on this legislation, as well as the chairman of the full committee, Spencer Bachus, for his leadership on this initiative as well. To the extent, as with the previous piece of…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank the gentleman from California as well for his leadership on this issue, as well as others, and also behind us over here, the chairman of the full committee, Spencer Bachus, for his leadership on…

Before you leave, tied to this is another one of the two last points I was going to raise, which perhaps you would like to illuminate on. The bill also requires that the intermediaries state a target amount that you're raising. You just…

The point of that is, again, what? Basically investor protection here. What you don't want to have happen, I guess, is: Say I'm going to go out into the marketplace and start raising money, and as soon as the cash starts coming in I can…

I thank the gentleman for not only managing the floor tonight with regard to this conference, but also with regard to all your great work with regard to trying to push forward the BBA, making sure we get over the goal line this time. As…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. I rise in support of H.R. 358, the Protect Life Act. Doesn't that name really say it all, the ``Protect Life Act''? Historically, the Federal funding of abortion has been restricted. Time and time and…

I come to the floor, as the previous speaker has said, to say this side of the aisle is committed to reaching a solution and not just a deal to this problem. We are committed to reaching out across the aisle and across the other side of…

So he says on the one hand that the risk retention is most important; then he turns around and says that any loans with 4 percent down payment should be exempt from risk retention. I don't know very many loans that are at that level. So I…

I congratulate the chairman of the full committee, the chairman of the subcommittee, and the gentleman from Wisconsin for the good work done on, really, a commonsense piece of legislation before us. Earlier, I heard the ranking member from…

Just to the gentleman from the other side of the aisle who made the point regarding what sort of amendment that Thomas Jefferson may have been looking for today, whether he actually would be looking for one, what we call a supermajority…

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Graves), who recognizes that if the balanced budget amendment was appropriate back in 1995, with debt now reaching over $14 trillion today, how much more so is it relevant to pass today.

I would just remind Members of what the leader on the other side said, wondering whether Members have actually read the bill. If Members do read the bill, they understand that Cut, Cap, and Balance, as provided before us, actually does…

Just to remind the other side of the aisle with regard to the radical plan that we talked about here with regard to changing or amending the Constitution, it was Thomas Jefferson who said, in a letter to John Taylor, I wish that it were…

I yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from Michigan (Mrs. Miller), who is concerned not only about the soul of the Nation today but the soul of the Nation for our posterity as well, who is not willing to duck the hard fiscal issues.

We are also reminded that Jefferson said in 1816 that he sincerely believed that the principle of spending money today that we don't have, to be paid for by posterity, is but swindling future generations--something this Republican Party…

I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Stearns), who, while the White House says that leadership is not simply proposing a bill to vote up or down, recognizes that the White House has not given us any plan of leadership so far…

At this time I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Coble).

Would that we had the problem of this Congress over the last 2 years trying to balance the budget, what with $1 trillion in additional stimulus spending, $2 trillion in the cost of ObamaCare, $3 trillion overall added to the budget…

At this point, I will yield that 30 seconds to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan).

I ask my colleagues to rise with me in support for my amendment, which will save Americans over $500 million. My amendment before us today makes reasonable and targeted spending reductions in order to do what? Achieve significant savings…