"my bill, H.R. 2655, the Insider Trading Prohibition Act, has now passed through Congress, has been included as an amendment to the NDAA, and it is time for it to become law."
"many Americans' trust in our financial markets and institutions is at near historic lows, quoting a Gallup poll."
"What the American people are seeing today is something that my Republican Party friends have given over to recently all too often, and that is rank dishonesty in the service of acquiring and retaining..."
"I don't remember a moment as consequential as this one for the Federal Reserve or as potentially testing of its leadership."
"I just ask that as you make your decisions, you think not just of the numbers and the economics, but of the importance of sustaining this nation's democracy."
"Simply put, as one of the last Members of Congress to get out of the Chamber when it was under attack on January 6, 2021, I don't believe that our democracy can sustain either runaway inflation or ano..."
"It is really shameful, it is painful, and it is sinful to hear people use the term, 'inflation,' to indicate that people who were unemployed shouldn't have received help."
"They can't feed their families. Small businesses were screaming for help."
"I want the people that I serve, who pay attention to the supermarket more so than the stock market, to know that when they had needed this help, we were there for them."
"It is important for the American people to understand what is being said here today."
"The American Recovery Plan is a particularly rank piece of dishonesty."