[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6380-6381]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          THE CONE OF SILENCE

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, after the collapse on Wall Street and after 
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multiple abuses, the American people are very disappointed that one 
party in the Senate is filibustering so that we can't move forward to 
have a bipartisan Wall Street reform bill.
  The Republicans' filibuster kind of reminds me of the old ``Get 
Smart'' show where they had the Cone of Silence. When they wanted to 
keep a secret so that nobody knew about the secret, they brought down 
the Cone of Silence. That's what the Republicans want to do about Wall 
Street reform. They want a Cone of Silence over the Senate so that 
nobody knows whose side everybody is on.
  We are on the side of the American people to have aggressive Wall 
Street reform. The people who are over there who are filibustering are 
on the side of Wall Street. They want the Cone of Silence so that 
people won't know that they're standing up for their friends on Wall 
Street. That is wrong.
  You know, maybe the answer ``no'' is the right answer to some things, 
but it isn't the right answer to Wall Street reform. End the 
filibuster. Get a vote. Let's tame Wall Street the way it ought to be 
regulated.

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