Boiler room (business) protection. A fictional "boiler room" brokerage firm was dramatized in the 2000 film "Boiler Room", and the play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross" show a similar boiler room operation selling real estate. The 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, also involves a boiler-room investment business and is based on the memoir of convicted penny stock fraudster, Jordan Belfort. A 2010 episode of the television series "White Collar" depicted fictional conman Neal Caffrey infiltrating a group of corrupt brokers also peddling inflated penny stocks. Boiler room (business) In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound
Words taken down in 1946 and 1995, years before or after control of the House changed hands. Words taken down Words taken down is a procedure used in the United States House of Representatives under the House Rules when a member suggests that another member used inappropriate words in debate. The Congressional Research Service summarized the process in the following way: Martin L. Levine, law professor at the University of Southern California, notes that "Taking down words, like 'taking down names,' is the start and not the end of a process. A separate step is required to rule the words out of order."