Brad Sherman

Thank you. You are shrinking your balance sheet, and there's a lot of focus on how much you are shrinking your balance sheet, but what also matters is the content of the balance sheet.

Chairman Powell, I want to thank you for bringing to the attention of this committee over the last several years the systemic risk posed by tough legacy London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), some $16 trillion of instruments where we would…

The fact is that energy production in this country was higher in the first Biden year than in the last Trump year and will be the highest ever in recorded history next year in 2023.

CBDCs will not meet the primary need that is aspired to be met by cryptocurrencies.

Just for the record, wouldn't we have had millions more Americans in poverty, hunger, evictions, homelessness, and foreclosures had we not passed the American Rescue Plan?

Every one of those rockets was a war crime.

There's some that will hold you to an impossible standard that somehow the Administration has failed if we do not get absolutely total justice in Ukraine and Iran does not change its regime and everything.

We have three major allies east of China: Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

We have trillions of dollars at stake in not having another variant. And the cost of vaccination is measured in the single digit billions.

I would hope that the U.S. Senate would be on team human rather than on team COVID.

Obviously, this is the moral thing to do. Obviously, it's a thing to do to assure our role in world leadership.

These few hundred letters represent the voices of thousands that have been adversely impacted by the FAA's NextGen program.

It might be a good idea to close off this business that Goldman Sachs is involved in, in the future, if it can be shown that what they`d be able to do is drive down the price of future Russian debt by stopping Goldman Sachs from trading in…

Inflation has been a worldwide problem since COVID.

That is a step in the right direction and clearly the democracy groups are less bent on ethnic cleansing and genocide than the junta is but that is the low Bart.

I am also concerned with the fact that we are still giving economic aid to Burma.

If neither the junta nor even the democracy--if Burma is unwilling to govern its territory in a way that is non-genocidal to the people who have a right to live there, then maybe a portion of Rakhine States should become independent or…

We are being called upon to support a democracy movement that seems to believe in democracy for almost all the people of Burma.

We have seen a democracy movement in Burma, Myanmar that has inspired us.

It is unfair to compare the alleged potential of crypto to the actuality or current system that we have now.

Imagine if we didn't have any Federal regulation of State-chartered banks.

We pretty much stopped the Libra, which would have been a cryptocurrency that had so much money and power behind it

It is so important that the Libyan people accept the outcome of this election, and I could say that for another country that's important to me as well.

If you try to use crypto to buy a sandwich today--I don't know where you can go in Washington you can use a Bitcoin to buy a sandwich.

Crypto currency is an incredibly volatile investment that aspires to be a currency that might displace or at least compete with the dollar.