Without effective enforcement, trade liberalization measures can have a detrimental effect on America's workers and industries.
We understand that U.S. trade policies should not come at the expense of American jobs or the rights of workers at home and abroad.
House Democrats, with leadership of this committee, paved the way for the May 10 agreement which brought labor and environmental provisions ...
We believe that no supply chain should contain products made with forced labor.
President Biden and congressional Democrats continue to push an economic and trade agenda that is focused not only on building the economy, ...
Families at home are hurting.
Thank you. And thank you all for the historically great work which you did to have our Country respond the way it did.
The lessons, I think, are clear. Regulators need to strengthen bank oversight, and Congress must reinstate stronger rules.
That is why Senator Cortez Masto, Senator Hawley, Senator Braun, and I introduced a bipartisan bill to ensure that when executives crash the...
You know, it is clear that giving regulators power to do something is not always enough. Congress needs to force regulators to use it, which...
We need to strengthen our financial watchdogs' ability to impose fines, ban bad actors from the banking industry, and claw back compensation...
SVB, Signature Bank, and First Republic all lobbied Congress to weaken the guardrails, preventing them from making risky bets with depositor...
So in its postmortem of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the Fed found that legislation passed out of this Committee in 2018, led to weaken...
We cannot--we will not--let that happen again.
We need legislation to expand the banking agencies' authority to ban a bank executive or manager from the industry for failing to properly o...
Congress needs to put in place tough rules that make sure that executives pay up when their actions lead directly to a bank failure.
Bank executives who take on too much risk and crash their banks because of their own hubris and greed should not get to ride off into the su...
Yes, I think that is a very important signal because it is a tale of two pandemics.