[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 655]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   DON'T DEREGULATE WALL STREET AGAIN

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor today to remind my 
colleagues on both sides of the aisle who are about to cast votes on a 
bill that I believe will make Wall Street a little freer to make risky 
bets for a few more years: Where were we 6 years ago?
  Well, let me just give you a blast from the past with some headlines. 
From The Wall Street Journal, on January 7, 2009, ``ADP Reports 693,000 
Private Sector Jobs Lost''; CNN, January 9, 2009, ``Worst Year for Jobs 
Since '45''; Bloomberg, January 8, 2009, ``December's Job Loss Was Bad. 
But How Bad?''; in The New York Times, February 14, 2009, ``Job Losses 
Pose a Threat to Stability Worldwide.''
  President Obama hadn't been in office. This was other stuff, mistakes 
that had happened in the past connected to deregulation of Wall Street.
  We were staring down the worst recession since the Great Depression. 
Today, we are about to embark back down that path to deregulate Wall 
Street again. Don't do it.

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