House Proceeding on Apr 20th, 2007 :: 0:24:36 to 0:26:24
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Speech By: Barney Frank

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Barney Frank: or no on the bill without this kind of wording which gives people a chance to vote no on the bill without standing up to do it. the chairman: for what purpose the gentleman rise. >> i move

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Peter Roskam: to strike the requisite number of words. the chairman of the committee gently admonished one of the other speakers for selectively quoting a particular article. we all do that, don't we? he was

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Speech By: Peter Roskam

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Peter Roskam: making the point yesterday -- or the other day when we discussed this bill about this particular issue and the chairman teased him a little bit but called him out saying read the entire article.

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Peter Roskam: it seems to me the chairman of the committee may be falling into that same trap a little bit. coming to this floor now and having a conversation of the range of the securities and exchange

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Peter Roskam: commission and sort of by implication giving the approval on rules that the s.e.c. promulgated is not a great celebration necessarily of the entire framwork of the securities and exchange commission.

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Peter Roskam: it is not as if we have a choice today. we are in the minority. we don't get to set the debate. we don't get to take the etch-a-sketch of the securities and exchanges law and shake it and come up

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Peter Roskam: with a new thing. if the gentleman from georgia says within the context there is something decent happening here that the s.e.c. has done then so be it. but that is not an -- mr. frank: would

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Peter Roskam: the gentleman yield? mr. roskam: i would be happy to yield. mr. frank: i apologize. i inferred that the members are supportive of what mr. cox did. if i was wrong about what the republican

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Barney Frank: s.e.c. has done i withdrawal that and i will not impute approval of what mr. cox has done. mr. roskam: i would suggest the chairman should resist the temptation to overcharacterize a particular