Jim Himes

How long does that take to go away? Because if it doesn’t go away, and it hasn’t gone away, we still have a clear and present threat to our democracy.

The religion that they follow, of course, is that Donald Trump is the be all end all.

Sanctions are an important instrument in foreign policy, designed to be both a carrot and a stick in persuading an entity, an individual, a group, or a country to change its behavior.

It almost begins to feel like intimidation rather than what it almost most certainly was, which was an effort to go after the president's political opponents.

We need to understand why it was originated and then we also need to understand why Attorney General Bill Barr restarted that investigation.

I would like to know, from soup to nuts, because we know that this President had every opportunity to use the tools of the American public, the Federal government for his own personal gain.

This is the use of arguably next to the military, the most powerful thing that the Federal government has, the Department of Justice, it was the use of the Department of Justice to advance a quirky political aim of the President.

I do think that an awful lot of investors--as Warren Buffet says, you don't know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out.

There is a dispiriting dialogue on this committee where the Republicans accuse the Democrats of wanting more regulation.

We ought to be able to agree...that investing is a critical part of asset accumulation for American families.

Kudos to you for pointing out that the trading stops were actually part of the system architecture designed to keep disaster and catastrophe from happening.

You have, in your careers and today, distinguished yourselves for your balanced approach and really intelligent approach to the issues.

I thank Chairman Gensler for being here, and I hope he joins us often.

Investing done irresponsibly...will, in fact, result in a return that begins to look a little bit like the return you will assuredly receive in a casino or on the horse track.

I would love to work with Congressman Torres on that, and others in the committee, because stronger things with the tools that we already have using the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) would be more useful than trying to go…

I actually did a little due diligence in talking to the attending physician, and I was told that our Member vaccination rate is hovering around 75 percent.

I saw with great interest your comments on cryptocurrency out of the Fed. You said we would not proceed without support from Congress and urged great transparency.

I believe that Americans should have the right to do with their money what they will, but...

When you look at the literature, retail investors lose because of a whole series of human biases.

I can go to the window behind me and peel out $10 bills and throw them out the window.

I certainly support the right of people to do what they want with their money.

We convert from the system of one person, one vote, instead into a system of one dollar, one vote.

I remember, 11 years ago, we were promised by some that Dodd-Frank was going to crush the American capital markets.

I remember the early 1980s, late 1970s, when inflation destroyed the savings of the middle class and reduced confidence in the economy.

I also believe that when thousands of Americans are dying every week still, it is far better to risk doing too much than to risk doing too little.