"We spend .2 percent of our GDP on aid. Other wealthy countries as a group average .4 percent. So we're at half the level."
"We need humanitarian monitors on the ground in Tigray because not only does truth die in the darkness, women and children die in the darkness."
"We need parity for credit unions, both as to the level of depositor insurance and as to access to liquidity facilities."
"The banks are not doing what we need them to do. We need them to make business loans."
"Under the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) system, we penalize every bank, every time they make a good business loan."
"The purpose of our capital markets for working American families is to finance factories and businesses where they can work at blue- and white-collar jobs and create products that help them in their d..."
"What this does is it diverts that to a new, hidden money system."
"If we want clarity, let's just make it clear, and the industry should lobby for this, that the SEC has full jurisdiction."
"Billions and billions of dollars have been transferred to Ukraine using traditional currencies, and lots of money has gone to Russia, evading our sanctions, using cryptocurrency."
"Fear of missing out. Somebody else may get ahead of us in this technology."
"Fentanyl is a new, innovative technology. We don't need a regulatory system that rewards those who created that innovation."
"That is why I support H.R. 2789."