For this and support this and i want to use my remaining time to talk a little bit about the budget resolution the Budget Conference Committee that we are going to talk about later. I completely agree with chairman mckeon. In the spirit what i said about the ndaa, about the necessity of getting our job done, we need to pass a budget. I know it impacts all manner of other pieces of government but im most familiar with what it does to the department of defense to not have a budget, to not have Appropriations Bills, to have to go from c. R. To c. R. To Government Shutdown threat to actual Government Shutdown to another Government Shutdown threat, you simply cannot function as well as you should or as well as you would if you had a dependable budget that said heres what you have. It would never be what all of us want. It is better of the predictability of having an appropriations process. Its critical we Pass National defense authorizing act, its critical we pass the budget. We have to fun
I think the heart reform is ensuring the largest Financial Institutions have the freedom to fail. I dads Small Business of baltimore, if he did not make payroll, nobody was going to bail him out, and that is at the ore of what doddfrank is. That is why i was so pleased just last month when moodys, the large rating agency, removed this uplift them and the Credit Ratings of the largest tank Holding Companies that had come to be the cause of perceived government backing, and that works because of title ii of doddfrank and all over the fdic and the fed did, and ben and his people in the bank relators in supporting everything and marty. And before that, sheila did. The second thing i think is making sure that there is enough capital on hand, and i know where is dan . He is sitting somewhere. Ive have been on all these International Meetings where dan has been tireless, along with toms people, and making sure theres enough capital in the system and the stress tests really work. That is reall
Him and ze his did president roosevelt. President roosevelt finishes by saying, with we pray that with victory will come a new day of peace on earth in which all the nations of earth will join together for all time, that in the spirit of christmas, the holy day, may that spirit live and grow throughout the world in all the years to come. And then finally he closed with this, madam speaker. This is Franklin Roosevelt, january 20, 1945. This is part of his last inaugural address. And as i finish with this, let may i say, madam speaker, that i know all of us here in the house and the senate, no matter what our persuasions, have the same very best wishes as Franklin Roosevelt had for our american troops, our men and women in uniform today, just as those wishes were made 68 years ago. This was 1945. Roosevelt said, as i stand here today, having taken the solemn oath of office, in the presence of my fellow countrymen, in the presence of god, i know that it is americas purpose that we shall n