if we don't have public engagement and consultation with tribal and environmental justice groups, and if environmental assessment and impact statements are rushed or poorly done, progress can be held up in the courts and wind up with even…

Recently the United States has considered issuing a central bank digital currency. CBDCs are digital liabilities issued by a central bank and made available to the public. The implications for the United States dollar as the world's…

It is past time for us to remove private bankers from this public role.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, if you didn't want to help an issue or hurt an issue, you just engaged in benign neglect, you just don't do anything.

Senator Rick Scott and I introduced a bipartisan bill today that would prohibit big bankers from serving as Reserve bank directors.

It is to say pull back on this regulation and give a green light for massive and undiversified growth.

This is not strong oversight. In fact, it is not even competent oversight.

I have introduced a bill to repeal Title IV of S. 2155, which would undo the Fed's deregulation of the biggest banks.

The actions of the Chair of the Federal Reserve and a Governor of the Federal Reserve were unambiguously inconsistent with the Fed's rules.

Then how could you say there was no evidence that anyone violated the rules? It clearly violated the rules.

you do not get to write a law that shoves the Fed in a strictly deregulatory direction and then turn around and say, 'Gee, we wish they had not deregulated.'

Independence should not be conflated, however, with a total lack of accountability when the Fed and its leadership make serious mistakes.

Independence should not be conflated, however, with a total lack of accountability when the Fed and its leadership make serious mistakes.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, if you didn't want to help an issue or hurt an issue, you just engaged in benign neglect, you just don't do anything.

Right now, our project development systems in the country, it is like a car moving slowly down a bumpy road.

This is designed neglect. It is not giving the agencies the resources they need.

we don't need to attack NEPA. We need better road signs, better drivers, a better road.

Some of the Republican proposals for permitting are the equivalent of trying to fix the car by throwing out the brakes and the steering column.