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

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

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…

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.