Brad Sherman

There is no legitimate reason for Eritrean troops to be in any part of Ethiopia.

There are many issues in Africa, but I am going to devote my 5 minutes to the conflict in Ethiopia and Tigray, which is the bloodiest conflict in the world this decade.

Will you commit to not supporting lifting AGOA and not supporting international lending until these ethnic Tigrayans are released?

It is, of course, natural that the Congress bemoan that Karen Bass is leaving us, but she is coming to us in Los Angeles.

Some would say, why don't we just stop? Well, China provides $2.1 trillion to the U.S. economy.

This raises three types of issues: macroeconomic; investor protection; and national security.

Well, we're going to concentrate on the harm that could occur in the next decade.

I'll ask the other witnesses. Is anybody aware of us trying to prevent, as we try to harvest the benefits of artificial intelligence, the creation of an ambitious, self-aware computer that may very well decide that we're irrelevant to this…

Is anybody doing any technical research about how we can get very useful computers, that we somehow put something in there, a governor if you will, that prevents general intelligence or prevents self-awareness, or prevents ambition and…

We're--right now, the computer engineers and the bioengineers are racing to create a new level of intelligence.

This House of Representatives in May passed my bill, the Russia and Belarus Financial Sanctions Act, which would block that loophole.

My hope is that the institutions here wouldn't be exploiting that loophole.

The Inflation Reduction Act reduced the Federal deficit by $300 billion, partially ameliorating the inflationary effect of the Trump tax cut.

We should be willing to provide technical assistance to help our Caribbean friends deal with money laundering, et cetera, et cetera.

I believe I am the only former tax collector in Congress. Why I would then be able to get elected is something to be studied elsewhere.

The fact remains that XRP, I think, clearly is a security, and we need enforcement

We need to have these answers because this is our constitutional duty as we, according to the Constitution, are the purse bearers for the U.S. Government

You are going to have to take on some cases that you are not certain of winning.

I would hope you would go back and look at the many instances of spring-loaded stock options...

It is easier to go after the small fish than the big fish, but the big fish operating the major exchanges did many, many tens of thousands of transactions with XRP.

If XRP is a security, and you think it is and I think it is, why are these crypto exchanges not in violation of the law?

If anything, we need another project, and that is to define a security, particularly with regard to the digital world.

Democracy works better where rules are published, and the rules are clear, rather than there are things in a gray area.

At a time when we have an enormous Federal budget deficit, for us to do that, unless the gentleman has some pay-fors, would simply expand that deficit further.

Half of the Millennial homebuyers needed family to help them, and not everybody has a rich uncle or a helpful parent.