Maxine Waters actually said...

"Instead of marking up sensible bills that have bipartisan support to strengthen the banking system following the three major bank failures earlier this year, Republicans are holding another hearing to..."

"Regulators should strengthen, not weaken, these critical banking rules to protect consumers from future bank failures."

"Almost half of these countries are in advanced development, pilot, or launch stages of their CBDCs."

"I think that the rhetoric around an arms race has been particularly unhelpful."