Jim Himes

No, he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. I mean, we're a co-equal branch of the government charged with oversight, so nobody gets the benefit of the doubt. One way or another, we need to see every word of that report.

I still do not see what American interest was served here, and that is my question to you.

Well, first of all, they haven't separated themselves when Deripaska continues to own a 45-percent stake in the company, and there are questions about whether he continues to control it.

I want to revisit Treasury's decision to delist Rusal, En+, and associated entities owned and controlled at the time by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

Mr. Himes' bill would set out a statutory definition of insider trading and would also reverse the harmful U.S. v. Newman court decision from 2014.

I am determined to get this through with bipartisan support.

This is a question of making sure that the activity that we all agree should be illegal, is in fact illegal.

We need to fix this and we need to have a more vibrant capital market structure so that small businesses and everyday investors can succeed.

My bill would address this problem by simply prohibiting executives from trading during this 4-day gap.

If we are going to send people to jail for breaking the law, we should make that law very clear, and this is our opportunity to do so.

Yes, that's correct. And I guess it surprises pretty much no one that Matthew Whitaker, when he was acting attorney general, that he was acting in defense of the President.

I am also happy to see that the committee will be considering Congresswoman Maloney's bill, which I know she and her team have worked very long and hard on.

It is imperative that we modernize our efforts to combat financial crimes because our adversaries will continue to modernize theirs.

I am convinced that there is no better issue to start our subcommittee's work than a discussion of policies to detect and deter these financial crimes.

These are some of the most pressing issues facing our country and the world, and I am excited for the opportunity this Congress presents to confront them head on.

I would like to thank Chairwoman Waters for creating this new Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy.

Somewhere along the way, this agency went from a goal of protecting consumers to a tug-of-war between protecting consumers and undoing regulations.

In Pennsylvania, my home State, students have an average debt when they leave college of nearly $37,000.

I care deeply about student loan debt for the reasons that I was a professor, but also because I am a parent.

An often-overlooked driver of the financial crisis was the failure of prudential regulators to identify and curb systemic patterns of consumer abuse.

Instead, you have used the Bureau to serve the wishes of the most powerful financial companies in America.

It has become clear that consumers no longer have a strong, independent consumer bureau on their side.

Somewhere along the way, this agency went from a goal of protecting consumers to a tug-of-war between protecting consumers and undoing regulations because lenders didn't like them.

Students have an average debt when they leave college of nearly $37,000. Unfortunately, we are the second highest rate in the United States.

It is certainly not something that anyone should want to ignore or anyone should want to shut down an agency tasked with an independent oversight in this area.