The Fed is focused on these long-standing disparities because they weigh on the productive capacity of our economy. We will only reach our full potential when everyone can contribute to and share in the benefits of our prosperity.

We know that he was willing to hold up a foreign aid to Ukraine while they were under attack by Russia, he got impeached for that.

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.

It is beyond the pale, right? You didn’t mention the fact that, you know, a number of I think it was almost two dozen Republicans voted against giving a gold medal, a Congressional Gold Medal to the people who saved their lives.

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

We need to understand the full extent because if we don’t learn from this, I promise you there are people including some who are running for president who are watching this and say, hey, that’s a pretty cool tool. I wonder what I might do…

I thank my colleagues, Mr. Vargas and Chairwoman Waters, for leading on these important issues. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill and my amendment that we will be considering later today. My colleague from Florida just accused us…

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.

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

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.

As I rise, gasoline is once again flowing through the Colonial Pipeline, and we are getting ready to undertake our routine briefs--those of us who sit on the Intelligence Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security--of this week's…

I thank Mr. Emanuel Cleaver for yielding, and I thank my subcommittee ranking member, Mr. Hill, for a very good characterization of the project we are undertaking here. I will emphasize two things. Number one, at a moment when we are…

I must say, as much respect as I have for Mr. Huizenga--I have been around here a little while--I think this may be the first time I have heard from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that the regulators deserve deference on…

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.