"Thank you a bunch, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for holding this really, really very important hearing."
"We must also protect innovation and provide regulatory certainty businesses need to maintain their operations in the United States."
"I believe that we must have broad support within the community we wish to regulate if we ultimately want to protect consumers and innovation."
"I have consistently said in the past that I believe the CFTC is the right agency to regulate spot digital commodities."
"The CFTC's principle-based approach has proven to effectively protect consumers in the derivatives market."
"It is vital that we limit our policy proposals to the agencies that we have jurisdiction over, in this case the CFTC."
"Again, we certainly do need to get a farm bill done, and we just have a real difference of opinion as to how we get that done."
"You are always welcome to use airtime, so thank you for being here."
"To my knowledge, Congress has never held a hearing solely on decentralized finance, not once."
"The two agencies have a long history of working well together, and I will focus on the word 'well.'"
"We have done a good job, I think, by and large, over the past 10 years implementing Dodd-Frank and Title VII."
"I want to thank you two, the Chair and Ranking Member, for bringing this forward."