Active U.S. global engagement is critical to our own national security and economic interests.

Effective international efforts will require strong U.S. leadership over the long term.

Throughout your testimony, you have spoken of the importance of expanding the Medicaid program to improve health outcomes.

I think this absolutely needed to be done, and I am very appreciative that you are doing this.

But we are not going to stand by and allow yet another what I consider unfair ripoff to people who can least afford it.

There is a problem that has been identified dealing with payday loans.

I believe our job and the job of the CFPB is to ensure access to safe, affordable credit to everyone.

If you are willing to write letters to protect veterans from predatory lending practices, you ought to do that for everybody.

I have been active in opposing this dramatic consolidation of HUD's multi-family field offices throughout the country.

Consumer credit products shouldn't be available if they hurt their customers.

My message is, drop the interest rates. Look at 36 percent or so.

It is politically powerful and safe to talk about protecting our military, because these are people who put their lives on the line for us.

I want you to know that not only am I concerned, it looks like we are about to have some bipartisan concern on this issue.

But I would really like to thank Chair Yellen for being here with us today to discuss the state of the economy and your role in ensuring that a full recovery is achieved for all.

I commend the good work of the task force, work that they have done during the past year under the leadership of Ranking Member Lynch, Chairman Fitzpatrick, and Vice Chairman Pittenger.

Do you believe action should be taken to require the disclosure of beneficial ownership information upon incorporation?

I want you to know that I am very interested in whether or not we can have a private/public operation that will do the best job for our constituents.

I really do commend them for the attempts that they have made to try and have this a bipartisan issue.

Let me apologize to everybody for Biggert-Waters. I am the 'Waters' of Biggert-Waters.

Short-term extensions cause lapses in the program that place communities at risk and undermine our housing market.

I believe that it is absolutely critical that we start thinking about the program and how we can improve it for the long term.

Together, we worked tirelessly to enact reform that provided much needed rate relief for thousands of homeowners.

Our goal was to create a bipartisan solution to repair our ailing Flood Insurance Program.

Indeed, it was only 7 short years ago that our economy lost nearly $16 trillion in household wealth.

Unfortunately, many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem to have caught a convenient case of amnesia about this important mandate.