Janet Yellen: “I absolutely do, and we have advocated for it very strongly.”

I will never forget it. I was involved in it, and we did everything we could to put together a package of measures that would stop what could have become a run on the banking system.

But what caused our cash balances to run to exceptionally low levels in the past was the failure of Congress to raise the debt limit.

I'm very troubled by this. I was appalled by the brutal attacks by Hamas on Israel, and felt that Israel deserves our unqualified support.

The U.S. is prepared to use sanctions and other tools at their disposal to try to disrupt Iran's destabilizing activity in the region.