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That seems to be an empty promise if FEMA is diverting resources.
I am hard-pressed to find a worse idea, frankly, than to federalize and, ultimately, socialize credit reporting in this country.
Nothing got done last Congress on this... because there is no willingness to have a bipartisan conversation.
I see this as a problem... for my constituents and for my colleagues' constituents.
Let's not create a new problem... a government-run agency.
We should be promoting competition to create better opportunities for consumers.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
This is part of their broader goal to dismantle the financial system as we know it.
We can all agree that the credit reporting industry is in need of reform.
The government should not be the central repository for all financial data available on its citizens.
A massive new government-run database of consumers' personal financial information would be a sitting duck for bad actors.
Can you imagine the IRS, the Post Office, or the DMV compiling and maintaining your credit report?
It was Thomas Jefferson that said facts are stubborn things. And whatever may be our wishes or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. Let`s cast our eyes over the facts, shall we?
I thank the Congressman for his remarks. Mr. Speaker, as I continue to consider that the Democrats' plan must be to destroy our economy by incentivizing laziness, by incentivizing people not going to work, I shake my head and say, No, that…
I thank the gentlewoman for her always incredibly accurate and fierce comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert), another similarly fierce Congressman.
I am disheartened to know that with this Federal unemployment stimulus that we are sending out around the country, although it might solve some short-term financial woes, it is creating a spiritual poverty in the hearts of men and women…
When we start thinking about what is going on here in our country with unemployment, in the week ending May 1, 2021, about 16 million people collected unemployment. Now, that is a staggering statistic when you realize that over 6.6 million…