My point here, Mr. Gensler, is that you seem to have a very troubling pattern of hiring at an impartial regulatory agency.

It looks more and more like not an impartial regulatory body protecting investors and consumers, but a regulatory body that is using its power to silence and immiserate political rivals of the current President of the United States.

If you guys use the SEC in such a politically motivated way, eventually you are going to be out of power.

For far too long, our markets and financial regulators have answered to the interests of the powerful few on Wall Street.

New technologies risk further concentrating power on Wall Street at the expense of American savers.

Let me State this clearly. The city of Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support and immigration policy changes.

Can you truly look me in the eye and tell me with any degree of certainty that we are not going to lose jobs, thousands of good-paying jobs in Ohio's 13th Congressional District?

I think it is really incumbent upon our leaders to pay attention to when special interests are asking for exceptions from truck size and weights.

It makes me uncomfortable to go back home and to look at truckers who have just been laid off to say that we had a hearing on autonomous vehicles knowing that they need to be absorbed into another trucking company.

Americans count on our markets to provide for their futures. But for too long, our markets and financial regulators have answered to the interests of the powerful few on Wall Street--big banks, private fund managers, and corporate…

It was 15 years ago this week that Lehman Brothers collapsed--putting us in the middle of a financial crisis because industry ran wild.

It was 15 years ago this week that Lehman Brothers collapsed--putting us in the middle of a financial crisis because industry ran wild.

It was 15 years ago this week that Lehman Brothers collapsed--putting us in the middle of a financial crisis because industry ran wild.

But America's markets are the greatest in the world because we have strong investor protections--and because we have effective regulators who work to make sure we have transparent, fair, and honest markets that Americans deserve.

I am increasingly worried that we should be more worried about the weaponization of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

My point here, Mr. Gensler, is that you seem to have a very troubling pattern of hiring at an impartial regulatory agency.

If you guys use the SEC in such a politically motivated way, eventually you are going to be out of power.

It looks more and more like not an impartial regulatory body protecting investors and consumers, but a regulatory body that is using its power to silence and immiserate political rivals.