[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 19, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3548]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REFORM

  (Mr. WILSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WILSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, under the leadership of this 
Congress, my colleagues and I are working nonstop to help Americans 
that have been struggling with unemployment, failing businesses, and 
falling home prices. One of our most important tools to ensure our 
country's recovery is fixing our banking system. Comprehensive 
regulation reform will protect American consumers and restore 
commonsense rules to help keep an American crisis like the one we faced 
this past year from happening again.
  For too long, executives on Wall Street bent the rules and dodged the 
regulations. Basically, reforming Wall Street will mean a return to 
classic American values. If you work hard and play by the rules, you 
will be rewarded. We will quite simply put an end to taxpayer-funded 
bailouts.
  I have often said it is hard to play a fair game without a referee on 
the field, and that is exactly what we are going to do now, is put a 
referee on Wall Street. I urge my colleagues to work for comprehensive 
financial reform.

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