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Janet Yellen

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Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist currently serving as the 78th United States Secretary of the Treasury, a position she has held since January 26, 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party and has a distinguished career in economic policy and public service. Yellen previously served as the Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018, becoming the first woman to hold that role. During her tenure at the Federal Reserve, she focused on issues such as unemployment and inflation, advocating for policies aimed at economic recovery following the 2008 financial crisis.

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Sep 20, 2022

Lack of communication... severely obstructs our ability to conduct oversight over critical pandemic relief programs such as PPP.

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Sep 20, 2022

This administration and Secretary Yellen are not just ignoring our Committee but they are also ignoring... America's main street businesses.

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Sep 20, 2022

Secretary Yellen has testified a grand total of zero times before this Committee.

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Jul 23, 2022

A recession is a broad-based contraction that affects many sectors of the economy. We just don't have that.

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Jul 23, 2022

I would be amazed if the NBER would declare this period to be a recession, even if it happens to have two quarters of negative growth.

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Jun 19, 2022

Clearly, inflation is unacceptably high, it`s President Biden`s top priority to bring it down.

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Jun 7, 2022

I absolutely agree with the comments you made about [Free File]. It hasn't worked. We need to develop a new system.

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Jun 7, 2022

I absolutely agree with the comments you made about [Free File]. It hasn't worked. We need to develop a new system.

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Jun 6, 2022

I absolutely agree with the comments you made about [Free File]. It hasn't worked. We need to develop a new system.

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May 30, 2022

Janet Yellen, who earlier tonight told Wolf Blitzer that she was wrong to call it transitory when she said that inflation had posed only a small risk.

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May 11, 2022

I think this is something that we would be-- working on, on a bipartisan basis to discuss alternatives and evaluate them as something that I think would be very worthwhile.

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May 11, 2022

Absolutely. We can thank the American Rescue Plan for the strong labor market we have now and the strong financial position of most households.

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May 10, 2022

I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades. Roe v. Wade and access to reproductive health care…

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Apr 18, 2022

Putin`s war on worsening international food insecurity.

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Apr 5, 2022

I absolutely do, and we have advocated for it very strongly.

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Apr 5, 2022

We have not seen major use of crypto as a way of evading sanctions.

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Apr 5, 2022

I think that these surcharges should remain in place.

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Apr 5, 2022

We have put sanctions in place on China with respect to forced labor and Xinjiang and provocations with Hong Kong.

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Apr 5, 2022

President Biden has made it clear, and I certainly agree with him, that it cannot be business as usual for Russia in any of the financial institutions.

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Apr 5, 2022

I think often, Chinese lending can be predatory and result in unsustainable debt and influence on countries.

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Apr 5, 2022

Clearly, the Administration and the Treasury Department are opposed to any unilateral change in the status quo with respect to Taiwan.

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Nov 30, 2021

Our economic recovery is on track. We are averaging half-a-million new jobs per month since January.

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Nov 30, 2021

November has been a very significant month for our economy, and Congress is a large part of the reason why.

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Nov 30, 2021

We would agree with the CBO analysis that led to a score of a $367 billion deficit over 10 years.

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