Brad Sherman

Burden-sharing comes up. We like to say that we are only doing 3.5 percent. We mislead the American people when we say that. It is well over 4 percent.

We need more housing, and we need to build it somewhere.

The policies made here in this Capitol are not.

If it is not broke, don't fix it.

Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.

It is unacceptable for the CCP to limit Americans' free speech and even more unacceptable that the CCP can do it without consequences.

So if you are a studio, you hope it is yours. So they will never make another movie about Tibet.

If we had a 1/4 percent tariff--just 1/4 percent tariff--on all Chinese goods, and we increased it by 1/4 percent every month, then companies that fail to disengage from China would find a--they would be at a 40 percent disadvantage by the…

Tariffs are really the only across-the-board way that we can disentangle our economy, and disentangling is so important because right now China does not need to hire a lobbying firm here in Washington.

Can any witness here--raise your hand if you think you can put forward an argument why we provide this capital gains allowance to those who invest in the equity securities of Chinese-based companies?

If we didn't have the U.S. dollar playing the role that it does, our economy would be worse than that of Argentina.

If this works, we are not going to have that power anymore.

Just say no to crypto and to so-called stablecoins, the biggest oxymoron in the American language.

I want to commend the chair for his selection of the title of this hearing, which illustrates how our foreign aid budget is an important part of our geopolitical efforts and geostrategic efforts.

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.

I think revisiting the accounting rules and assumptions are well warranted in the case of what we have seen in recent months.

If anyone has their money in a bank where the net worth is negative $20 billion, it is time to get your money out of that bank.

The reason your banks went down is because of recklessness and greed.

My Republican colleagues are in this desperate effort to defend corporate malfeasance with their old strategy of blame Biden.

One bank/one vote is not democracy.

So in fact, the liabilities exceeded the assets by at least $20 billion.

I fear that we do the same here in our country, although it is a little less obvious.

Under the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) system, we penalize every bank, every time they make a good business loan.

The banks are not doing what we need them to do. We need them to make business loans.