Jim Himes

It's a little early to draw any conclusion about the testimony.

I will tell you that Mr. Kushner really made a good faith effort. And, you know, he came here voluntarily.

We did, as you might anticipate, you know, whatever it was, three-plus hours of questioning. We got a lot of detail on many of the things that he mentioned in his written testimony which we all saw yesterday.

I am not going to argue with you. I take your point. I actually think there is some balance here.

The number of public company material financial statement restatements has gone down 90 percent from 460 restatements in 2005 to 51 restatements in 2016.

Almost all of the decline that we have seen since the dot-com bubble, 1995-1996, 75 percent of the decline actually in the number of public companies occurred prior to the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley.

I have been interested in this for a long time. I was a supporter and helped with the JOBS Act, and I think it has done some pretty good things.

Well, it's important generally because, you know, as an elected official, as a politician, I'll be the first to say, some times the media gets it wrong, some times you don't feel fairly treated. But, you know, a free press that is asking…

No campaign takes help from a hostile foreign power.

Well, it turns out there was collusion. And it wasn't by some random person in Ohio. It was by the president's son.

I strongly support--I just don't believe that FDIC-supported institutions should be making proprietary bets.

The premise was that Dodd-Frank regulations were harming capital markets. And if you look at capital markets, actually, there is not much data to support that.

I would like to echo the ranking member's gratitude for the substantive and generally nonpartisan approach of these hearings.

I am not inclined to believe the Russian is just about ever but I am worried that we didn't get the point across in the way that it is going to -- hopefully preserve the integrity of our elections going forward.

I would hope that perhaps Secretary Tillerson, because this is a matter of such importance to our national security and to the integrity of our system, I would hope that maybe he would come before one of the committees of Congress and…

I actually am glad that the meeting occurred. I'm glad that the President was clear on Article V.

I have the very best intelligence agencies in the world. They caught you red handed. Here is the evidence, if you ever do this again or think about this again, at a time and place of my choosing, I will put you in a world of hurt.

What you saw today was just a dog's breakfast of uncertainty and lack of charity about what happened.

He did say that. And by the way, he, very specifically, articulated our support for Article 5 of the NATO Treaty.

It's a contradiction of something that we know to be true.

If I were a Russian intelligence boss, I would be doing all I could to get folks over here.

He should move on and he should speak in very, very clear tones about what happened.

I don't understand how the United States president can protect the country if he's not willing to sit down with Vladimir Putin and look him in the eye and say, I know you did this. It will stop.

Vladamir Putin is like your school yard bully. He is not going to -- he is not going to change his behavior until he gets knocked down.

Yes. No, I absolutely agree with that. And look, what the President said that there was some sort of collusion or that President Obama did nothing is absolute nonsense.