Congressman Tierney believes that we can, and we should, have a government that is truly responsible to the American people -- not to special interest groups and lobbyists. He was one of only 57 House members to resist the termination of the "Glass-Steagall" banking regulation in 1999 – deregulation that ultimately led, in part, to the excessive risk-taking that led to the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. John continues his fight for reasonable rules of the road for Wall Street's financial industry that will end any prospect for future bailouts by taxpayers and to stop Wall Street from gambling instead of encouraging investment into American industry's growth. He also stood up to student loan special interests and won the successful fight to end their subsidies and guarantees, saving $68 billion for taxpayers and using that to pay down our debt and invest in educational opportunity and job training. His proposal resulted in Big Insurance companies finally being required to use at least 80 to 85% of our health care premium dollars on actual health services instead of executive salaries and bonuses.
