"Finally, we have it. And I think the SEC did a good job on a very difficult thing."
"It has taken them over a decade to come up with a rule defining who would be subject to some future rule."
"We were defeated militarily in achieving our full goals in Afghanistan not by the Taliban, but by the phrase 'Forever War.'"
"This agreement, this DOHA agreement, is the worst agreement I could imagine."
"Is there anything in the agreement where the Taliban commit themselves to allowing 13-year-old girls to go to school?"
"The politicians promised the American people we would pull out--not because our casualties were particularly large, but because they were on top of 20 years of war."
"When the Taliban treats 12-year-old girls like sex slaves, when they kill members of the LGBT community, they are not in violation of this agreement."
"Having spent 28 years on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and 28 years on this committee, I want to commend our witnesses and the agencies they represent, since our ability to impose sanctions and..."
"I would join with the chairman on a concern for civil liberties because we may be seeing Trump 2.0 in the White House."
"As the chief Democrat on our Capital Markets Subcommittee, I have to comment on what a government shutdown would mean."
"You need to be there. And I will finally point out that there are only thousands of transactions every day in Bitcoin, tens of thousands."
"If we fail to provide that money does that degrade our national security in the South Pacific?"