mr. barr, my good colleague in his first term, but seems far more experienced than that, to speak to the save american workers act. mr. barrow: i thank the gentleman from indiana -- mr. barr: i thank the gentleman from indiana, congressman young, for his leadership on this very important issue. it's an important issue because obamacare is hurting american families. it's hurting american employers. it's hurting american workers who are struggling to make ends meet, to put food on the table. this is a bad economy. we continue to suffer from a bad economy, despite five years passing after the financial crisis. but the project of obamacare, the project of the affordable care act is really, if you deliberate about it, the project of obamacare is the project of the entire obama presidency. it's a project to determine whether or not big government can solve big problems. it's a project to determine whether or not the federal government can micromanage 1/6 of the american economy. it's a probably to d

mr. barr, fix this is problem of their own making ching it prevents a disastrous fire sale of legacy c.l.o.'s. it narrows the volcker rules prod definition of ownership interest in a c.l.o. last month the financial services committee passed this bill on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis with all but three members of the committee voting in favor of it. the independent community bankers of america and the american bankers' association have all voiced their support as well. i'm sorry, though, that it's come to this. time and time again, the committee has admonished the regulators that the c.l.o. provision of the volcker rule were a threat to the economy and the financial stability they're supposed to be protecting. time and again, however, the unwielding banking regulators chose to do nofplg if they had corrected this problem as we've been urging them to do and which they could do, we would not be here, wasting valuable legislative time, saving the c.l.o. market from our own public servants. no

barrow: i thank the chairman and -- mr. barr: i thank the chairman and i would like to thank the gentleman from my home state, mr. rogers, for his advocacy of this important issue. and i appreciate yielding some time to talk about this legislation that i am proud to co-sponsor, which would study the feasibility of including the historic mill springs battlefield within the national park system. perhaps noes where more than the commonwealth of kentucky does the maxim that the civil war pit brother against brother ring truer. it never is he seeded. a slave-holding kentucky had rival union and con federate governments and was represented by the central star of the stars and bars. it is no exaggeration to say that kentucky families and communities were often split along blue and gray lines. a border state at the nexus of the ohio and mississippi rivers, kentucky was a vital trategic -- of vital strategic importance to both causes. as chairman rogers pointed out, president abraham lincoln noted that i hope to have god on my side but i

the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky, mr. barr, for five minutes. mr. rr: thank you, speaker. i rise today to highlight an industry that is at the very center of the culture and economy of kentucky's sixth congressional district. our signature equine industry. central kentucky is rightfully designated as, quote, the horse capital of the world. but this is a little title that we happily share with our neighbors in the city of louisville on the first saturday of may. as we celebrate the highlight of the thureo bred racing season, the -- thurobred racing season, the kentucky --y the run for the roses, i want -- the run for the roses, i want o talk about the significant economic and jobs impact in kentucky and beyond. when you think of the kentucky derby, the fastest two minutes in sports, you think of the first running of the derby in 1875. you think of orb who run the derby last year in 2013 and all of the great thoroughbred horses who came in between, from sir barton in 1919, the first triple crown winner, war admiral who was, of course, in seadisket.th