Jeff Duncan Quotes
Why would you pass another law when the administration fails to enforce the current laws that are on the books. Why pass another one that's not going to be enforced either?
Duncan, Jeff. "Remarks at Hearing on Immigration Reform." House Committee on Homeland Security, Government Publishing Office, 2013.
Marcopolos had discovered the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme Fraud 9 years before the government discovered the largest consumer fraud ($68 billion) in American financial history. He repeatedly sent warnings and explanations to the SEC investigators, most of which turned out to be exactly right. They ignored all of it I an era of deregulation, and never even investigated Madoff to see if there might be anything amiss.
Marcopolos had discovered the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme fraud 9 years before the government discovered the largest consumer fraud ($68 billion) in American financial history. He repeatedly sent warnings and explanations to the SEC investigators, most of which turned out to be exactly right. They ignored all of it, and never investigated Madoff to see if there might be anything amiss.
La Guardia was the only “wet” on the Congressional Committee dealing with alcohol. His prediction was unfortunately all to accurate.
Theodore Roosevelt had made many changes to control corporate rapaciousness and disregard for the law. Taft, his handpicked successor, wanted to roll back some of the regulations feeling that the problem of corporate corruption and venality had been solved. TR did not agree and the men’s close friendship dissolved over this issue—so much so that Roosevelt ran against Taft in the 1912 election.
Mormons were not only discriminated against but frequently robbed, murdered and ethnically cleansed from different parts of the country. In general the Federal Government did little or nothing regarding the plight of the Mormons. Civil order and crime prevention where generally thought of as State functions except where Indians were involved where the Army would be mobilized.
The article he wrote was the first serious plan and proposal to repeal Prohibition which was opposed by most people after the country had experienced the negative unintended consequents of making alcohol illegal. This was not unlike the second thoughts that many Americans began to develop regarding the War on Drugs at the end of the 20th century. Many felt the good that prohibition did (it improved the nation’s healt) was not worth the bad that came with it (crime, corruption, police brutality, disrespect for the law.)
The Commission is not a law enforcement agency in the sense that it can initiate or prosecute a civil or criminal lawsuit against a party that is breaking the law. The Commission however, can refer cases to the Justice Department and turn over their findings with a recommendation to prosecute. However, under George W. Bush, the policy was not to even do that. Chairman Majoras actually persuaded the Bush Justice Department to terminate efforts to prosecute Intel and other companies that previous Commissions had recommended prosecuting.
This was a very important quotation because Cox was a strong advocate of deregulation and voluntary regulation, and that is why he was appointed to head the SEC by George W. Bush. He was the leading Republican expert on Regulation of the Stock Markets and sale of public securities. However when the Meltdown of 2008 hit, it was clear to all but the extreme ideologues that some Federal regulation was necessary. Nonetheless, it took several years to reform the regulations for the financial industry with the Banks and Wall Street fighting it all the way and by that time the Republican Party had been so dominated by ideological conservatives that the views of Cox and others no longer had much influence. They fought the Dodd-Frank reforms to go preserve self regulation to a great extent.
Conversations about pollution and environmental safety
The Governor had sent the Federal Government a bill for $118 million to cover the cost of medical, educational, and other social services for illegal aliens.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Jeffrey Darren Duncan is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, his district covers the northwestern part of the state. Duncan previously served as the South Carolina State Representative for the 15th district from 2003 to 2011.
