I want to acknowledge here Chairman Cardin's longtime leadership on this particular area of health care.

if you shut those borders down, they're not going to come there. If the hours are reduced, they're not going to come.

it does not behoove this Administration and it surely doesn't behoove our economy not to have those ports open

we're depending on you to do that, and we're depending on this budget to do that.

I was going to say a fly rod and a set of skis is also a way we recruit dentists to Montana at times.

I have had a number of Farm Bill listening sessions since this is a Farm Bill year, and these haven't been invitation, this has been opening the doors and let folks in to speak their mind.

we're depending on you to do that, and we're depending on this budget to do that.

300 grand a patrol agent seems a bit high to me.

So at what point in time do the Fed regulators drop the hammer on this outfit?

If the regulators were asleep at the wheel we need to hold them accountable.

thank you and the entire Finance Subcommittee on Health Care for this important and timely hearing.

I want to acknowledge here Chairman Cardin's longtime leadership on this particular area of health care.

We need to hold bank executives accountable when they screw up.

In 2008, I voted against the bailouts of the big banks because I do not support taxpayer bailouts.

If the regulators were asleep at the wheel we need to hold them accountable.

I have talked to a lot of bankers who said if this would have happened before Dodd-Frank the regulations would have stopped this from happening.

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and the general turmoil in the banking sector are the direct result of the failures of regulators, including the agencies we have before us today, also the executive teams at these…

I remember having debates right here with the Banking Committee about these massive stimulus bills, that $1.9 trillion spending bill, that even Lawrence Summers said was inflationary.