Juan Vargas: “Climate change presents a direct threat to our nation's capital markets, critical infrastructure, and economic growth.”

I think you are probably the smartest person who comes and testifies before us, and I think most people would agree with that.

I find it kind of interesting now that the Republicans point to the courts as some sort of objective standard when it changes.

I don't know how that is free market--I won't quote Trotsky or Mao Zedong, but it does seem to me that it goes against capitalism.

I appreciate that, and so do the polls. Notably, according to a recent nonpartisan poll, over 82 percent of Americans support the CFPB and its mission to protect consumers in the financial marketplace.