There is a better way to address China's actions than to impose a new, across-the-board tax on U.S. consumers and businesses.

In the end, these tariffs are not a tax on foreign steel and aluminum producers, but rather a tax on American citizens and businesses.

It's concerning to me that we were unable to get a straight answer on a matter like this from the agency at the heart of our efforts to protect American consumers from counterfeit goods.

I just want to congratulate you and welcome you to the Committee. These are tough jobs, and you are very qualified, and I intend to support you.

I'm extremely concerned about the disparity between our industries.

I'm very confident the U.S. Government has a response if a major cyberattack were to occur.

That's something that brings me, sort of keeps me up at night at how we respond.

the United States can play a huge role in working with our allies to stabilize, geopolitically, this world if we are smart on how we actually do it.

Is it--I am told that sometimes these investigators are--they have quite a bit of leeway in what they go forward and what they look at.

As I understand it, in Section 1002 of Dodd-Frank, it explicitly gives the CFPB the authority to exempt credit unions from certain regulations and smaller institutions.

the consumer is the loser in that scenario

As a former small business owner, I am aware of the difficulty of complying with some of these regulations and having the staff to meet those compliances.

it has been told to me that we are losing a number of these smaller institutions, and that concerns me

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We are going to work with you to see what we can do by April 4.

There are a whole lot of other people that benefit from that and maybe they should be asked to help support that at the same time.

Sometimes we make a decision that if we are giving Homeland Security the ability of making these kinds of decisions on local communities, aren't we already doing that with the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture?

To do that, you need different kinds of access points, one at the border wall, one further up there, further up again.