Cspan sundays and it 00 published my Public Affairs books now available in your favor bookseller. Up next a look at the resources securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to enforce regulations under the doddfrank financial. The sec is requesting over onehalf billion dollars for next years budget. The cftc is asking for 280 million. This is an hour and a half. Udal room waiting for the hearing to get started. We may be waiting for the s. E. C. Chairman to come to the hearing om. Th good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. I am pleased to convene this airing of the financialservices and general Government Subcommittee to get some of the fiscal year 2015 funding requests of to keep federal regulatory agencies. Cal year 20 requests of two key federal regulatory agencies. The securities and Exchange Commission, and the commodity futures trading commission. I welcome my distinguished Ranking Member, senator mike johans and some of my othe
Problems. The issues facing our nation this week are monumental to us but a part of the long history of the political and policy debate that have created a great arrative of parties pa tiff participative democracy. Send your spirit of wisdom on the peoples house that the members may work as one to move our nation forward to a brighter future. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last adairs proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Mr. Speaker. The speaker for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise . Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers aproufl of the journal. The speaker the question is on the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. I request the nays and yeas and nays. The speaker the yeas and nays are requested those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays wil
To move toll be able the secondary market more ably. For firsttime home borrowers, i agree with ann. I feel the baby be cultivated so carefully has been thrown out of your bathwater responsible lending that took over the markets. I do not think we have to look find botho experience, underwriting guidelines, demonstrations that would give us a good roadmap on how to increase access to credit to firsttime homebuyers. The sooner we get to that, the better the sooner the country will be served better. You went over the history of the bubble and subsequent crash and how we came to this was edition. Experienced the bubble and crash again. We plan to monitor unintentional consequences. For theclear variable congress perspective is that home prices are rising. It is good for the economy. There is a negative side. We want we do not want to have to wrap it of a rise in rapid ofes and too a rise in home prices. Are indicatings that they are having a very accessing the construction loan as part of
Leader of boko haram. And i dont expect you too and of course in the case of the school girls, i believe it was some 15 of them were muslim. So it was the education and the freedom and empowerment and the progress that boko haram was attacking as it attacked the school girls as much as it was anything to do with religion. Im not denying that religion doesnt appear to be a very important factor for the leadership, but that is that is different from saying it is the sole motivation and it is different from trying to understand the impact of their actions on muslim civilians throughout the northeast. Well, and i appreciate that. And certainly you cant get into their head. And i dont necessarily say that its the sole motivation but i think we have to realize this is an animating feature. You cant get into his head but you can listen to what he says. And this is quoting from his speech. We know what is happening in the world. It is a jihad war against christians and christianity. It is a wa
Expansion of the definition of waters of the United States. Additionally, the e. P. A. Is pressing forward despite two recent Supreme Court cases that expressly rejected the agencys broadest definition of bodies of water and made it clear not all bodies of water are subject to definition under the act. Few regulatory agencies will be able to escape the reach. This proposed new definition could apply to countless numbers of small wetlands and creeks that are typically regulated at the state level. More specifically, the proposed rule extends the reach of federal Regulatory Authority by adding interstate wetlands and all adjacent waters to the definition of waters of the United States. It also deems all tributaries to be categorically jurisdictional. And for the first time ever, ditches ditches, mr. President , are defined as jurisdictional tributaries. This is cause for concern. This should be the disturbing and troubling to all americans, is subjecting roadside irrigation, storm water