the most important thing we can do is manage our own economy well, and that starts by paying our debts.

I am going to try to sneak in one more question, and that is on appraisal management companies.

I think we talked privately about Dodd-Frank Section 1071, which requires financial institutions to compile and maintain and submit data to you...

Let's move forward to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loans.

I look forward to next year when I am sure the then-Majority will have Mr. Gensler here.

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

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.

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

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

We have to have a contingency plan should the Ethiopian Government fail to meet its conditions under these agreements.

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

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